On the Trail of Jeremiah
Robert Redford, the lure of the West, and the art of getting away
By David Gessner
On the Trail of Jeremiah
Robert Redford, the lure of the West, and the art of getting away
By David Gessner
ARTICLES
The Bottom of the Ninth 
In baseball and in life, there is a cost to our pursuit of an error-free existence
By Elizabeth D. Samet
‘In the Presence of People No Longer Here’
Historians in the Ukrainian city of Lviv are documenting the horrors of the past while living in the shadow of war
By Adam Hochschild
The Final Word
The death of Gabby Petito and the uncomfortable intimacy of vocal re-creation software
By Amy Butcher
The Story of Mumbet
Who was the enslaved woman whose burial site at a Berkshires cemetery draws so much reverence and respect?
By Linda Greenhouse
First Love, Faded Bloom
Rereading Gone with the Wind on a trip through the South
By Joy Lanzendorfer
Spreading the Good Word
Wilfrid Sheed’s essays pulsed with the energy of midcentury America
By Kevin Fenton
The Bottom of the Ninth
In baseball and in life, there is a cost to our pursuit of an error-free existence
By Elizabeth D. Samet
‘In the Presence of People No Longer Here’
Historians in the Ukrainian city of Lviv are documenting the horrors of the past while living in the shadow of war
By Adam Hochschild
The Final Word
The death of Gabby Petito and the uncomfortable intimacy of vocal re-creation software
By Amy Butcher
The Story of Mumbet
Who was the enslaved woman whose burial site at a Berkshires cemetery draws so much reverence and respect?
By Linda Greenhouse
First Love, Faded Bloom
Rereading Gone with the Wind on a trip through the South
By Joy Lanzendorfer
Spreading the Good Word
Wilfrid Sheed’s essays pulsed with the energy of midcentury America
By Kevin Fenton
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DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
Afloat Between Worlds
What is the meaning of the mystical visions that a sailor experiences at sea?
By Joseph S. Christensen
Rhetorical Questions
In Eavan Boland’s Stanford workshop, the poet imparted lessons on suffering, expression, and the importance of a sandwich
By Hugh Martin
poetry
Voyagers
The sensation of being situated across time and space in the verse of John Kinsella
By Langdon Hammer
anniversaries
fiction
commonplace book
Book essay
The Guilt of Victory and the Virtue of Defeat
Wrestling with war and its aftermath
By David Stromberg
book reviews
Think, Again
Reckoning with the elegance of physical laws and the wonders of being alive
By John Kaag
Criminal Complexity
What inherited traits can—and can’t—tell us about violent behavior