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Cover Story

A Vacuum at the Center

How a demagogue resembles a typhoon, and why it matters to the future of the republic

Cover Story

A Vacuum at the Center

How a demagogue resembles a typhoon, and why it matters to the future of the republic

ARTICLES

Courage Before the Thaw

Portraits of Alaskan women on the precipice of climate change

The Privilege Predicament

Yes, advantage exists, but has the promiscuous casting of blame enhanced the work of understanding?

Of a Fire on the Marsh

The last days of the dusky seaside sparrow, a species that went extinct when it lost out to the moon race

When Death Came to Golden

A writer’s strange entanglement with one of the 20th century’s most prolific serial killers

What Is a Dog?

Friendship, faith, and love, for starters—yet our relationships with our canine companions contain many more unfathomable mysteries

Courage Before the Thaw

Portraits of Alaskan women on the precipice of climate change

The Privilege Predicament

Yes, advantage exists, but has the promiscuous casting of blame enhanced the work of understanding?

Of a Fire on the Marsh

The last days of the dusky seaside sparrow, a species that went extinct when it lost out to the moon race

When Death Came to Golden

A writer’s strange entanglement with one of the 20th century’s most prolific serial killers

What Is a Dog?

Friendship, faith, and love, for starters—yet our relationships with our canine companions contain many more unfathomable mysteries

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

Haste Makes Waste

Which figures of speech will survive, and which will vanish?

poetry

anniversaries

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fiction

Live-Hang

“Some things you could make happen, but life was made up mostly of things that happened to you, and even that didn’t account for the way fractured lives somehow held together.”

commonplace book

Spring 2018

Quotations for the season

book reviews

Shadow Warriors

After 9/11, what happened when the gloves came off?

Where the Sun Never Set

A new, multilayered history of the British Empire

Literary Life on the Rocks

A writer's own ordeal highlights the banal sameness of addiction

A Planet in Peril

Can humanity engineer its way out of trouble?

A Window on Europe

How a tsar turned a fetid bog into an imperial capital

A Fallen Angel of Mercy

Did her good works expiate the sins of her dark past?