SPOTLIGHT
A Splendor Wild and Terrifying
Lost in the woods, a writer confronts the duality of nature
By Mark Phillips Thursday, July 17, 2025
SPOTLIGHT
A Splendor Wild and Terrifying
Lost in the woods, a writer confronts the duality of nature
By Mark Phillips Thursday, July 17, 2025
Shooting a Dog
During a deployment in Iraq, a young soldier confronts a fundamental paradox about the masculine temperament in wartime
By Hugh Martin Thursday, December 14, 2023
“The Coming of Light” by Mark Strand
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Tammy West
Climate grief (without despair)
By Noelani Kirschner Monday, December 11, 2023
Selections from Hafiz’s Little Book of Life
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 5, 2023
In the Forest of the Colobus
At a Gambian nature reserve, troops of endangered monkeys—and numerous other creatures—enact a grand drama that plumbs the mysteries of life, death, and regeneration
By Dawn Starin Monday, December 4, 2023
Notes From the Front
Henry Kissinger’s Vietnam diary shows that he knew the war was lost a decade before it ended
By Thomas A. Bass Monday, December 4, 2023
All Dolled Up
How American Girl transformed the doll world—and why millennials love it so
By Jayne Ross Thursday, November 30, 2023
“Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher” by Barbara Guest
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Jeanne F. Jalandoni
Weaving past and present together
By Noelani Kirschner Monday, July 14, 2025
Michael Douglas Explains It All
Jessa Crispin on what the actor’s roles tell us about the crisis of masculinity
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, July 11, 2025
On (Middle-Class) Frugality
Does cutting costs mean robbing oneself of life’s small delights?
By Sierra Bellows Thursday, July 10, 2025
“Daddy” by Sylvia Plath
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, July 8, 2025
America the Beautiful
The poem that became a hymn to the nation came about in troubled, polarizing times
By Lincoln Caplan Friday, July 4, 2025
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Plus: Eric McHenry resurfaces another murder from blues music, Sierra Bellows weighs frugality against delight, and Marilyn Marks explores the politics of klezmer
Plus: Eric McHenry resurfaces another murder from blues music, Sierra Bellows weighs frugality against delight, and Marilyn Marks explores the politics of klezmer
Jeremy Spoke in Class Today
On guns, MTV, Stephen King, and the nightmare from which we cannot awake
By Paul Crenshaw Monday, June 2, 2025
The Rascal of Pont-Aven
Reassessing a renowned painter’s troubling life
By Hannah Stamler Monday, June 2, 2025
Who Killed the Mercy Man?
An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song
By Eric McHenry Monday, June 2, 2025
‘God-Knows-What-Kind-of-Classic’
Why shouldn’t America’s federal buildings speak to us in a language encompassing the old as well as the new?
By Witold Rybczynski Monday, June 2, 2025
A Fight With Cudgels
Meditations on death, Goya, and the immutability of art
By Nick Lyons Monday, June 2, 2025
Jeremy Spoke in Class Today
On guns, MTV, Stephen King, and the nightmare from which we cannot awake
By Paul Crenshaw Monday, June 2, 2025
The Rascal of Pont-Aven
Reassessing a renowned painter’s troubling life
By Hannah Stamler Monday, June 2, 2025
Who Killed the Mercy Man?
An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song
By Eric McHenry Monday, June 2, 2025
‘God-Knows-What-Kind-of-Classic’
Why shouldn’t America’s federal buildings speak to us in a language encompassing the old as well as the new?
By Witold Rybczynski Monday, June 2, 2025
A Fight With Cudgels
Meditations on death, Goya, and the immutability of art