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Moondance

Experience the marvel that is night-blooming tobacco

Cover Story

Moondance

Experience the marvel that is night-blooming tobacco

ARTICLES

Look Out!

Why did it take so long to protect spectators of America’s favorite pastime?

Teach the Conflicts

It’s natural—and right—to foster disagreement in the classroom

Others

Too many people in the world isn’t the problem—people are the problem

Thoreau’s Pencils
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How might a newly discovered connection to slavery change our understanding of an abolitionist hero and his writing?

Reborn in the City of Light
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At a time when Paris was an incubator of modernism, a group of bold American women arrived to make art out of their lives

Field Notes
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Recollections of Jim Harrison

Look Out!

Why did it take so long to protect spectators of America’s favorite pastime?

Teach the Conflicts

It’s natural—and right—to foster disagreement in the classroom

Others

Too many people in the world isn’t the problem—people are the problem

Thoreau’s Pencils
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How might a newly discovered connection to slavery change our understanding of an abolitionist hero and his writing?

Reborn in the City of Light
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At a time when Paris was an incubator of modernism, a group of bold American women arrived to make art out of their lives

Field Notes
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Recollections of Jim Harrison

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

A Giant of a Man

The legacy of Willie Mays and the Birmingham ballpark where he first made his mark

Adventures With Jean

Striking up a friendship with an older writer meant accepting the risk of getting hurt

Feels Like Coming Home
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The wonders of the coastal redwood

The Patron Subjects
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Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings?

Free
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The knowledge of approaching death may allow some of us to experience time in new and liberating ways

poetry

The Art of Falling

The force of gravity in the lyrics of Andrew Motion

anniversaries

commonplace book

Book essay

A Poet of the Soil

The legacy of a writer who struggled with his celebrity

book reviews

For Want of Touch

The astonishing breadth of our passions

Imperiled Planet

The ecological havoc we’ve wrought

Ground Truth

A story of dirt, dollars, and death

Insisting on the Positive

A popular historian’s philosophical musings

A Stranger in the Seven Hills

A refugee’s experience in the Eternal City

Heart of Semi-Darkness

A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors

Mortal Coils

We aren’t alone in facing the inevitable

Silent Partner

The union that may have made possible a writer’s late flourishing

Schmaltz of Significance

How the first talkie treated the myth of the melting pot