Spotlight
Tammy West
Climate grief (without despair)
by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, December 11, 2023
Read Me a Poem
Selections from Hafiz’s Little Book of Life
Poems read aloud, beautifully
by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 05, 2023
Cover Story
In the Forest of the Colobus
At a Gambian nature reserve, troops of endangered monkeys—and numerous other creatures—enact a grand drama that plumbs the mysteries of life, death, and regeneration
by Dawn Starin | Monday, December 04, 2023
Article
Notes From the Front
Henry Kissinger’s Vietnam diary shows that he knew the war was lost a decade before it ended
by Thomas A. Bass | Monday, December 04, 2023
Book Reviews
All Dolled Up
How American Girl transformed the doll world—and why millennials love it so
by Jayne Ross | Thursday, November 30, 2023
Book Reviews
Thought Experimenters
Making sense of a broken world
by Robert Zaretsky | Monday, November 27, 2023
Book Reviews
The Late Bloomer
Reconstructing a private poet’s life
by N. S. Thompson | Thursday, November 23, 2023
Current Issue
Plus: Dawn Starin on the grand dramas of colobus monkeys, Greg Afinogenov on burying his dead, and new fiction from Nell Pierce
Cover Story
In the Forest of the Colobus
At a Gambian nature reserve, troops of endangered monkeys—and numerous other creatures—enact a grand drama that plumbs the mysteries of life, death, and regeneration
by Dawn Starin
Article
Shooting a Dog
During a deployment in Iraq, a young soldier confronts a fundamental paradox about the masculine temperament in war-time
by Hugh Martin
Gallery
It All Begins in Love
An essayist sees glimpses of her parents and the many struggles they endured in a new exhibition of southern photography