Cover Story
Looking Back From the End of the World
What Thoreau can teach us about living life during—and after—the pandemic
by David Gessner
Articles
The Patriot Slave
The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America
by Farah Peterson
Guardian of the Glaciers
As climate change threatens the future of the Himalayas, might the mountains’ salvation lie in endowing them with legal rights?
by Alex Basaraba
Adrift in Sunlit Night
When searching St. Petersburg for the shadows of Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Pushkin, the best strategy may simply be to get lost
by André Aciman
Camouflage
Recalling a past of sound and silence, and secrets that could never be told
by Sheila Kohler
