Medication Nation
Our increasing reliance on drugs—prescribed, over-the-counter, illegal, and ordered online like pizza—suggests we have a deeper problem
By Philip Alcabes
Medication Nation
Our increasing reliance on drugs—prescribed, over-the-counter, illegal, and ordered online like pizza—suggests we have a deeper problem
By Philip Alcabes
ARTICLES
How Chemistry Became Biology
And how LUCA, Earth’s first living cell, became Lucas, my adorable grandnephew
By Priscilla Long
Awakenings
The advent of new religions in the 1800s led to fierce debates that persist today
By Susan Jacoby
My Newfoundland
The sensations of landing on the island long ago haunted a writer’s final memories
By Paul West
A Life in Letters
A decades-long correspondence with the Italian writer Arturo Vivante covered it all: hardship, love, and the endurance of art
By Merrill Joan Gerber
Where the Heart Is
A grandmother’s life in five moves, from Hitler’s Europe to the American Midwest
By Leslie Berlin
How Chemistry Became Biology
And how LUCA, Earth’s first living cell, became Lucas, my adorable grandnephew
By Priscilla Long
Awakenings
The advent of new religions in the 1800s led to fierce debates that persist today
By Susan Jacoby
My Newfoundland
The sensations of landing on the island long ago haunted a writer’s final memories
By Paul West
A Life in Letters
A decades-long correspondence with the Italian writer Arturo Vivante covered it all: hardship, love, and the endurance of art
By Merrill Joan Gerber
Where the Heart Is
A grandmother’s life in five moves, from Hitler’s Europe to the American Midwest
By Leslie Berlin
DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
Evolution by Other Means
Natural selection isn’t the whole story of human development
By Ian Tattersall
poetry
fiction
commonplace book
book reviews
Riddles for the Afterlife
Decoding the hieroglyphs that accompanied the dead pharaohs
By Sarah Ruden
