The Widower’s Lament
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After the death of the poet Wendy Barker, her grieving husband turns to the literature of loss

An Outrage Sacred to the Gods

As Antigone knows all too well, the act of burying a loved one is not always a simple matter

It All Begins in Love

An essayist sees glimpses of her parents and the many struggles they endured in a new exhibition of southern photography

Florida Man

Making a home in the Sunshine State when you feel like a perpetual outsider

Give Us Something to Look At

Why ornament matters in architecture

Shooting a Dog

During a deployment in Iraq, a young soldier confronts a fundamental paradox about the masculine temperament in wartime

In the Forest of the Colobus

At a Gambian nature reserve, troops of endangered monkeys—and numerous other creatures—enact a grand drama that plumbs the mysteries of life, death, and regeneration

Notes From the Front

Henry Kissinger’s Vietnam diary shows that he knew the war was lost a decade before it ended

Alphabet of Despair

The photographic language of Dorothea Lange conveyed order and beauty in a dusty, impoverished America

A Burning World

Can poetry truly supply the language to express the ineffable sensations of suffering and love?

Spreading the Good Word

Wilfrid Sheed’s essays pulsed with the energy of midcentury America

First Love, Faded Bloom

Rereading Gone with the Wind on a trip through the South

The Bottom of the Ninth

In baseball and in life, there is a cost to our pursuit of an error-free existence

Your Perspective or Mine?

A brief history of subjectivity

On the Trail of Jeremiah

Robert Redford, the lure of the West, and the art of getting away

‘In the Presence of People No Longer Here’
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Historians in the Ukrainian city of Lviv are documenting the horrors of the past while living in the shadow of war

The Final Word
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The death of Gabby Petito and the uncomfortable intimacy of vocal re-creation software

The Story of Mumbet
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Who was the enslaved woman whose burial site at a Berkshires cemetery draws so much reverence and respect?

Musings of a Savoyard

Searching for Gilbert and Sullivan in the 21st century

Netflix Goes to Vietnam

When a filmmaker wanted to understand the war that changed his father, he decided to make a documentary

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