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Rewilding Our Minds

Why nature is so necessary during the pandemic—and how we repay the debt

Cover Story

Rewilding Our Minds

Why nature is so necessary during the pandemic—and how we repay the debt

ARTICLES

Of Plagues and Prejudice

Whether cholera or Covid-19, epidemic disease can reveal what is hidden—in ourselves and our societies

Black Turtlenecks, Hoop Earrings

Unruly girl-poets in the '50s

Orange You Glad

What's it really like to be someone else?

Washing Feet in Dolpo

On a medical mission at the top of the world, finding a healing dose of cheerful stoicism

The Power of Restraint

We must find a better way to commemorate 9/11

Of Plagues and Prejudice

Whether cholera or Covid-19, epidemic disease can reveal what is hidden—in ourselves and our societies

Black Turtlenecks, Hoop Earrings

Unruly girl-poets in the '50s

Orange You Glad

What's it really like to be someone else?

Washing Feet in Dolpo

On a medical mission at the top of the world, finding a healing dose of cheerful stoicism

The Power of Restraint

We must find a better way to commemorate 9/11

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

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The neutering of the Spanish tongue

Book essay

Remembering Brad

What a stroke of luck when some of your favorite books were written by one of your dearest friends

book reviews

Lessons in Abstraction

The strange life of Europe’s most overlooked modernist

From Mojave to the Moon

The new space race looks to put the superrich into orbit

Companions Through Time

A writer traces the footsteps of an Italian revolutionary icon

Physics for the Feeble-Minded

A crash course on our boundlessly bizarre universe

E Pluribus Unum?

Our national identity has always been hotly contested

Deep-Rooted Communities

Our woods are connected by a hidden underground network