A Fallen Angel of Mercy

Did her good works expiate the sins of her dark past?

In Full Flight: A Story of Africa and Atonement by John Heminway

Haste Makes Waste

Which figures of speech will survive, and which will vanish?

Precedents

The Color of Faith

The beatification of black saints

Spring 2018

Quotations for the season

Going Dutch

In these relentlessly disruptive times, 17th-century canvases from the Netherlands can provide moments of solace and hope

Raja Ampat: Seas of Change

Its rare reefs and fisheries have withstood collapse—but for how long?

Responses to Our Winter 2018 Issue

Canyonlands

A city painter in the wilderness

Live-Hang

“Some things you could make happen, but life was made up mostly of things that happened to you, and even that didn’t account for the way fractured lives somehow held together.”

A Vacuum at the Center

How a demagogue resembles a typhoon, and why it matters to the future of the republic

Where the Livin’ Is Easy

Unbuttoning on the beach

Shadow Warriors

After 9/11, what happened when the gloves came off?

Directorate Sby Steve Coll

Rivers Run Through Us

Six questions on the future of our waterways

Courage Before the Thaw

Portraits of Alaskan women on the precipice of climate change

Where the Sun Never Set

A new, multilayered history of the British Empire

Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906by David Cannadine

The Privilege Predicament

Yes, advantage exists, but has the promiscuous casting of blame enhanced the work of understanding?

Literary Life on the Rocks

A writer’s own ordeal highlights the banal sameness of addiction

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermathby Leslie Jamison

Educating Lillian

An excerpt from the forthcoming novel Children Made of Fire

Of a Fire on the Marsh

The last days of the dusky seaside sparrow, a species that went extinct when it lost out to the moon race

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