35 Over 35

These writers got their start after age 35—there’s still hope for you

Meghan Brady

Second Hand

You Never Step Into the Same Internet Twice

Linguist Gretchen McCulloch on the new rules of language

Spanish Fly

Charles Bukowski

“60 yard pass” by Charles Bukowski

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Seaside Sojourns

Fleeing the heat of the French capital

Sunset over Gettysburg battlefield

Rising Again

A writer finds much that hasn’t changed in the former Confederacy

Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz

Ojo

“An Essay on Man: Epistle 1” by Alexander Pope

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Swan Song

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto

The Root Cause

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine

In the Mushroom

True foraging isn’t the domain of the weekend warrior; it’s serious, serious business

Consolidated Ruin

“After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño

Ancestral healing

Asteroid Hunters

The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

Brown Wasps

“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

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