Overconsumed

Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard

Ups and Downs

“how i got ovah” by Carolyn Rodgers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

On Book

August Wilson’s play just hit the big screen, but even greater rewards await on the page

“I Have Had My Vision”

Three prompts

The Baritone as Democrat

How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today

Échame la Culpa

“Defeat” by Kahlil Gibran

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Kat Wiese

Taking flight

Fiction, Fakery, and Factory Farming

Spanish novelist Munir Hachemi talks about Living Things

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

Cats and Dogs

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Katie Heller Saltoun

Tenderness and grit

Magic Men

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel

Braña Curuchu

Under a Spell Everlasting

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war

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