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

Class Warfare

It is wrong that America’s most privileged families have abandoned military service

Change

Paris: The Death of Derrida

Fear Itself

Two Formalists

Remembering Thom Gunn and Anthony Hecht

So Help Me God

What all fifty-four inaugural addresses, taken as one long book, tell us about American history

What We Got Wrong

How Arabs look at the self, their society, and their political institutions

Point and Shoot

How the Abu Ghraib images redefine photography

The Coming of the French

My life as an English professor

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