Tony Hoagland wasn’t sure he wanted us to publish his poem “In the Beautiful Rain.&rdq…

This is the 500 th issue of The Sun . In recognition of the milestone, we’ve devoted more …

With touching concern, several subscribers have e-mailed recently to ask if I’m still upright…

“We have taken the same care in building the online edition that we do in crafting each issue, and if we are unfashionably late to the digital party, I don’t think Sy minds very much.”

We’ve just published a new collection of Sunbeams, Paper Lanterns: More Quotations from the Back Pages of The Sun. We’re reprinting the book’s introduction here. To find out more or to order the book, please visit www.thesunmagazine.org.
 

When I came to interview for a job at The Sun in 2001, the first thing I noticed was how differ…

One morning last December The Sun office was encased in a shimmering layer of ice. Overnight much…

With this issue, we are introducing several design changes, including a new typeface, Warnock, whic…

Julian Price walked into my office one day in 1990. He was a big man, well over six feet tall, with…

My wife and I moved recently. We didn’t move far — just across town — but our pos…