On Plants, Borders, and Belonging and The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant ...

The writer Lydia Millet is often described in reviews as “funny,” her wit “devastating.” Both are true, and I’ll add that like a lot of funny people, her humor is born of inconvenient truths. With ...

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane. Author Maria Popova is the questing ...

THE DOMESTIC RABBIT comes in roughly sixty varieties. Some bred for fur and meat, others for show and companionship. Share this array of benefits with a four-year-old stretching her sticky fingers ...

“The possibility of being present in the world in a whole, undivided way can be a gift of the animals.” —Ladson Hinton, “A Return to the Animal Soul” A PAIR OF great blue herons are on the beach early ...

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane. Author Maria Popova is the questing mind behind The Marginalian, a public record of her Continue reading → ...

EARLY ON IN THE winter of 1969–70, I was driving the great environmental prophet Barry Commoner from a small airport to my small college, where he was to speak to our student body, and I was first ...

HORSES AND CHILDREN have this much in common: they are moody, prone to biting, and difficult to control. As a little girl, I too was feral, rough, and rowdy; I too hated fences. Later, I would also ...

GRACE ALVAREZ SESMA HAS always been a dreamer. But this night was different. “We were a very humble family,” she says of her upbringing in the Mexicali barrio of Colonia Pro-Hogar. She didn’t have a ...

ABOUT TWO EIFFEL TOWERS deep in the Pacific Ocean, barreleye fish hang almost motionless in the dark, like holiday decorations. Books, books! Your father tells me you are reading too many books. No ...

OUTSIDE THE GTB Nagar metro station in North Delhi is a dense bustle typical of mornings in the city. Hundreds of people brush past one another at the crossroads; women stand on tiptoe to scan the ...