Verlyn Klinkenborg The Forest’s-Eye View Two new books investigate the ways in which deforestation affects climate change, and climate change affects forests. July 21, 2022 issue
Jenny Uglow Out of His Element In a new selection of John James Audubon’s oceangoing writings, we sense his obsessive quest to draw every bird he saw, even though he disliked being on the water. August 18, 2022 issue
Ethan Zuckerman Could Internet Culture Be Different? Kevin Driscoll’s study of early Internet communities contains a vision for a less hostile and homogenous future of social networking. June 9, 2022 issue
Laura Kolbe Where Does It Hurt? Three new books attempt to locate the origin of pain and its vocabulary. June 23, 2022 issue
Michelle Nijhuis The Downward Slope In A Cure for Darkness, Alex Riley responds to his depression by turning outward, placing his experience and its purported remedies alongside the experiences of fellow sufferers past and present. March 24, 2022 issue
M.W. Feldman and Jessica Riskin Why Biology Is Not Destiny In The Genetic Lottery, Kathryn Harden disguises her radically subjective view of biological essentialism as an objective fact. April 21, 2022 issue
Martha C. Nussbaum What We Owe Our Fellow Animals Can we develop a theory of justice that encompasses nonhuman animals? March 10, 2022 issue
Willa Glickman Fruits of Empire The plant explorers of the USDA succeeded in bringing the world’s fruits to American supermarkets. But at what human, ecological, and gustatory cost? November 12, 2021
Gabriel Winslow-Yost Exhausting All Possibilities The video game The Stanley Parable is about what it means to be free in a tightly constrained simulated world. August 18, 2022 issue
Daniel Immerwahr Wielding Wheat A new history makes a case for the world-ordering power of wheat. July 21, 2022 issue
Annie Sparrow Health Care Under Fire The fight to protect medical and humanitarian workers is not new, but we are running out of time before it becomes futile. June 23, 2022 issue
Ginia Bellafante Mothers Under Pressure The culture of contemporary child-rearing brings anxiety and guilt without relief. Does Emily Oster’s call for more relaxed parenting offer the solution? June 9, 2022 issue
Caroline Fraser ‘Anxious for a Mayflower’ In A Nation of Descendants, Francesca Morgan traces the American use and abuse of genealogy from the Daughters of the American Revolution to Roots. May 12, 2022 issue
Jonathan Mingle Reasons for Concern The IPCC’s latest report, with warnings for supply chains and food security, may be the most suspense-filled document in human history. March 9, 2022
Tim Flannery In Hot Water “The decline of coral reefs is accelerating so quickly that we may live to see the end of them.” March 24, 2022 issue
Mark Borrello Ideology as Biology E. O. Wilson corresponded for years with a notorious proponent of race science, advocating for his research behind the scenes. What does it tell us about his most controversial work? February 5, 2022
Elizabeth Kolbert The Waste Land Two crucial and interconnected resources—human feces and arable soil—face crises of mismanagement. February 24, 2022 issue
Gavin Francis Intimate and Invasive The prostate has caused difficulty for men and medicine for centuries. A new “biography of the prostate” examines the haunting terror it creates. February 10, 2022 issue
