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

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

In the Endless Arctic Light
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A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

The Wonder of It All
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In search of awe

The Crooner and the Physicist

Jacques Brel and The New Yorker profile that never reached critical mass

The Industrial-Strength Humanist

J. Irwin Miller knew how to get things built

A Sturdy Man

Notes on a human symphony

Findings: Another Washington Leak

The Thanksgiving Table

Mowing

Taking Leave

Henry James, Tolstoy, and My First Novel

Here’s Looking at You

Love in a Box

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