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 Age by 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

El Cabo de Año

Weirdo Capital of the West

The fantastical saga of Oklahoma City

Happy Birthday, Clara Schumann

The compositions of the eminent pianist are finally getting their due

Building Brawn

The brain isn’t the only muscle you should train

The Best of Everything

Susan Goethel Campbell

Heatscapes

The Other Path

Smell Ya Later

How 19th-century Americans used their noses to fight for urban change

A Sunset in Song

Ottorino Respighi and Percy Bysshe Shelley

City of Wonder

Venice reminds us that life is full of hope and possibility

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