In birding circles, they say the first bird you see in a new year sets the tone for what follows. Anything can be meaningful ...

In 2024, you loved stories about music and religion, the color green and careful considerations of grief and hope, little ...

Nadia sat back on her heels, mentally retracing her steps between home and the molokhia field. She’d been so preoccupied with her freshly braided hair that she must’ve left it behind. She glanced out ...

Bring objects with their own relations into new relation, and so: make. To make an offering that brings things into relation. To make dinner as if dinner were to write a novel. To have dinner be the ...

Thinking about activism sometimes calls to mind the metaphor of climbing mountains, or even climbing one particular mountain, with repeated assaults on it so continuous and steadfast that, over the ...

Is America the greatest? It seems harder and harder to make the case for the country’s eminence, especially when you consider that, compared to a group of twenty advanced democracies, America now has: ...

This is the second essay in a three-part series by the author. See also part one, “Commencement“; and part three, “Engagement“ GROUNDING TRUTHING: The use of a ground survey to confirm findings of ...

A VILLA MISERIA OUTSIDE Buenos Aires may have the worst feng shui in the world: it is built in a flood zone over a former lake, a toxic dump, and a cemetery. Then there’s the barrio perched ...

ONCE I PAID ATTENTION TO IT, the plant appeared everywhere. Its foliage clouded our view of the river. Its vines tangled with my pumpkins, twisted around goldenrod, jewelweed, cow parsnip — in fact, ...