In Search of Lost Travels

How remembrances from far away steel the soul

Concerto in Beans and Rice

Jazz maestro Paquito D’Rivera turns 70 this year, with a major collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma in the works

Normal Life

“I Figured What the Hell”

A pugnacious reporter looks back on his legendary career

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour Hersh

Talking It Out

How peer intervention can help treat mental illness

Five Poems
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“Spirits,” “The Priest at the Pool Party,” “A McDonald’s in Middle America,” “Joy,” and “Land’s End”

Encounters

Summer 2018

Split Decisions

A renowned neuroscientist examines human experience

The Consciousness Instinct by Michael S. Gazzaniga

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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