What Is Poetry? Chelsey Minnis’s Frying Pan Full of Diamonds

By Tamar SchwartzJune 13, 2026June 13, 2026 Arts, Poetry Monday

Click Here to Read: What Is Poetry? Chelsey Minnis’s Frying Pan Full of Diamonds By Jordan Castro in the Paris Review on June 11, 2026.

What makes a Stradivarius violin so special?

By Tamar SchwartzJune 13, 2026June 13, 2026 Arts, History

Click Here to Read: What makes a Stradivarius violin so special? Scientists traced it to one forest in Italy. A new tree-ring study solves the mystery of where the famed instrument-maker Anton Stradivari sourced timber for his violins during his “golden age.” By Richard Kemeny on the National Geographic Website on June 9, 2026.

Gould Stradivarius. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

By Tamar SchwartzJune 11, 2026June 11, 2026 Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children” By Maria Popova on the Brain Pickings webhsite.

Comping the Tune: Musical metaphor in a clinical moment

By Tamar SchwartzJune 11, 2026June 11, 2026 Arts, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Comping the Tune: Musical metaphor in a clinical moment by Cornelius Dufallo on The American Psychoanalyst Substack on June 11, 2026.

Photograph of Louis Armstrong playing Trumpet Image: Harry Warnecke and Gus Schoenbaechler, 1947. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

What AI Scribes Rehumanize and Dehumanize in Health Car

By Tamar SchwartzJune 10, 2026June 11, 2026 Psychoanalysis, Science

Click Here to Read: What AI Scribes Rehumanize and Dehumanize in Health Care CAI Currents on The American Psychoanalyst Substack on June 9, 2026