Spotlight
Preaching the Floral Gospel
How the Plant Messiah saves species from the brink of extinction
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, July 10, 2020
Web Essays
Billy Joe Wardlow, RIP
The subject of a Scholar cover story, executed in Texas
by Lincoln Caplan | Thursday, July 09, 2020
Talking Pictures
An Exchange of Bullets in Belfast
Revisiting Carol Reed's 1947 masterpiece Odd Man Out
by David Lehman | Thursday, July 09, 2020
Works in Progress
I Feel Your Pain (or Not)
Stepping into someone else’s shoes is often easier said than done
by Marcus A. Banks | Wednesday, July 08, 2020
The Arts in the Digital Age
The Great Reformatting
As performances go digital, artists must reconsider their relationship to audiences
by Theodore Gioia | Monday, July 06, 2020
Portrait of the Artist
Paige Twyman
Postindustrial imagination
by Noelani Kirschner | Monday, July 06, 2020
Smarty Pants Podcast
Read Me A Poem, Won’t You?
Behind the scenes of our sister podcast
by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, July 03, 2020
Americans in Paris Podcast
A Conversation with Lindsey Tramuta
by Thomas Chatterton Williams | Thursday, July 02, 2020
THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
Current Issue
“We will need to shelter in place, we will need to move less, we will need to stop flying all over the globe.”—David Gessner, “Looking Back From the End of the World”
Plus: Farah Peterson on a dangerous founding American myth, Alex Basaraba on whether mountains should have legal standing, and Peter Filkins on Joseph Brodsky
Article
Guardian of the Glaciers
As climate change threatens the future of the Himalayas, might the mountains’ salvation lie in endowing them with legal rights?
by Alex Basaraba
Book Reviews
The People’s Gallery
A collection that is the brightest light in a city full of them
by Anka Muhlstein
Book Reviews
Mysterious Inheritance
A new biography of the founder of population genetics
by David Brown
Dispatches From the Operating Room
By David Schneider
An excerpt from The Invention of Surgery
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