Don’t Meet Me in St Louis Samuel Autman USA In July 1961 Grace Bumbry strode onstage at the Bayreuth Festival. She was 24, and had earned positive reviews at a few major opera houses up to that point. But her voice was special, and in singing to acclaim, first...
On the Precipice of Flight Kristin Winet USA When I was a girl, I didn’t think much of road trips. For one thing, we just didn’t take them. The only real one we ever took as a family was when we moved to Georgia from Pennsylvania when I was five years old. I remember...
Influencer: Thor Heyerdahl and Kontiki Richard Oduku Kenya Illustrated by Marta Munoz England Our classrooms had earthen floors and windows the size of full moons – a truant’s blessing, but I wasn’t one. We sprinkled water every morning after sweeping, to pacify dust,...
James Baldwin: Flaneur de couleur Ernest White II USA Illustrated by Gaurav Ogale India I went to Santo Domingo, a sweltering, smoggy metropolis on the edge of a half-island in the Caribbean, as part of my undergraduate university’s study abroad programme. That...
