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East River Ferry, August 26
Introduced in 2024, Viewfinder is a print column about reflections on landscapes seen through windows from best-selling author Leslie Jamison. WE RETURN HOME AS SAILORS might, watching the approach of our Continue reading
Curanderismo and Healing the Fractured Soul
GRACE ALVAREZ 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 Continue reading
The Incredible Strangeness of a Total Solar Eclipse
A PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE is to a total eclipse what a garden drizzle is to a mountain storm: light rain and pleasant greenery versus stacked, black thunderheads belching lightning, thunder, and Continue reading
Pick Your Poem: 6 Poems to Transport You into the Natural World
AS PART OF HER tenure as the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate and in association with the Library of Congress, Ada Limón commissioned fifty-two contemporary American poets to reflect on their place Continue reading
Lessons in Stillness
For Kate Rogers “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” Continue reading