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We Are Still Here

How 10 activists around the world are fighting for a more sustainable future

by Alex Basaraba | Saturday, June 19, 2021
Listening to the Trees

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Listening to the Trees

What the forest can teach us about ourselves

by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, June 18, 2021
Night Train to Riga

Web Essays

Night Train to Riga

Two stories of love, heartbreak, and escape

by David Stromberg | Thursday, June 17, 2021
Guinea Pigs

Asturias Days

Guinea Pigs

by Clellan Coe | Wednesday, June 16, 2021
“Letter to the Front” by Muriel Rukeyser

Read Me a Poem

“Letter to the Front” by Muriel Rukeyser

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, June 15, 2021
The Inheritance of Nations

Arts

The Inheritance of Nations

To what extent does a work of art belong to the people of the world?

by Hannah Barbosa Cesnik | Monday, June 14, 2021
After the Chaos

Viral Days

After the Chaos

Who tells the story of Covid and what will it mean?

by Philip Alcabes | Saturday, June 12, 2021
Has Electronic Dance Music Lost Its Soul?

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Has Electronic Dance Music Lost Its Soul?

From acid house to deadmau5

by Stephanie Bastek | Friday, June 11, 2021
Fashion Forward

Works in Progress

Fashion Forward

Five questions about the future of what we wear

by Aditi Mayer | Thursday, June 10, 2021
So Special

Asturias Days

So Special

by Clellan Coe | Wednesday, June 09, 2021
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

Lunching on Olympus

by Steven L. Isenberg

W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, Philip Larkin, and William Empson are among the most renowned English writers of the 20th century. In this 2009 essay, Steven L. Isenberg writes that “the four have another thing in common, the unlikely and unexpected occasions of my having met each of them for lunch. … While I kept no diary and so remember fewer of their words than I wish, the memories I do have are testimony to their humanity and kindness.”

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“My delight in the beauty of the world now coexists with grief at its destruction. These emotions are like cellmates who cannot get along.”—William deBuys

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The Inheritance of Nations

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Raising Mank

The Academy Award–winning film about the making of Citizen Kane is really a window into the tumultuous, brutal side of Hollywood’s golden age

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E Pluribus Unum?

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The Word—and Weird—of God

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