Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

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

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel

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

Selections from Hafiz’s Little Book of Life

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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

Bodies Grotesque and Beautiful

Searching for aesthetics and meaning in the monstrous

Art Monsters: Unruly Female Bodies in Feminist Artby Lauren Elkin

Song Gatherer

The ghostly Cantares Mexicanos, as rendered by Edgar Garcia

Comfort Fare

Commonplace Book

Air Show

What the rise of an NBA superstar tells us about ourselves

Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordanby Johnny Smith

Remembering Elsa Schiaperelli

All Dolled Up

How American Girl transformed the doll world—and why millennials love it so

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