Launching the Greatest Fleet

How American war surplus helped build the world’s most successful merchant marine

Dianna Frid

Interwoven Text

Making Himself at Home

A German-born composer and his English oratorios

Handel in London by Jane Glover

Come to the Cabaret

Remembering Mabel Mercer, whose voice was intimate and wise

Descent Into the Underworld

An excerpt from “How Do the Dead Walk”

Responses to Our Autumn 2018 Issue

Voyages

The Portrait Master

Known for rendering others, a writer turns his attention inward

The Patch by John McPhee

Montana Sky

Illegals

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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