The Years With Jake

My unlikely friendship with the dean of Washington lawyers

Peel, Bark, Skin

Daughters of War

Writing women back into battle

“Daffodils” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

On the Frontlines

An excerpt from Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler

Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler

The Ritual of Renewal

Forget decluttering—I need to be surrounded by my library books

A Life Off-track

A talented historian’s tragic end

A Conversation With the Novelist

The Scholar‘s online book club meets Alice McDermott

Brenda Mallory

Repurposed Reality

Not Ready to Make Nice

Meet Lillian Smith, forgotten southern radical

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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