Home, the dictionary warrants, is about where we reside. The word’s typical use suggests something fairly fixed, even ...

"If parenting ever feels lonely or relentless, maybe it’s because so many of us are living contrary to our true nature." ...

On scars, cars, and aging bodies ...

Meera Subramanian: Genesis in the Bible is one of the mothers of origin stories. Your book transforms the text in a really ...

I HAVEN’T BEEN SLEEPING MUCH LATELY. I’ve read that those of us who don’t sleep well might be the descendants of our ancestral night watchers—those who learned to stay awake or sleep light to keep the ...

A CATFISH WITH THREE EYES lived in the Gowanus Canal. I can say this with confidence because I have seen the evidence. The catfish was shiny and pitch-dark. After a fisherman hooked it and reeled it ...

BIGFOOT ISN’T REAL, but black bears are—that’s the subtext of a recent study by Dr. Floe Foxon mapping bear populations relative to cryptid sightings. That study, published in 2024, sparked my ...

I FIRST HEARD ABOUT cattle mutilations when a round of them popped up in Oregon. The details, I need to warn you, are graphic. In 2019, five bulls were found dead in a wooded area, fifteen miles from ...

THE CHICKEN WAS UNWELL. She no longer ran to the summons of the leftovers pail to scratch at the compost heap with the other hens. Morning found her in a corner of the henhouse facing the wall, with ...

adrienne maree brown has been on my radar for a while. As a thinker, activist, and teacher, she provides essential insights into how we relate to both human and natural ecosystems. Our conversation ...

A MOTHER FINDS IT USEFUL sometimes to step outside her life so that she can look back in. To see her home and the things inside it more clearly without the barbed attachments of purpose or emotion; to ...

I OWE MY CAREER to Robert Redford. The list of people who can say that is long, but not many of those work at environmental organizations. I first met Bob in fall 2003 at the dedication of The Robert ...