Diorama Drama

Miniatures galleries for passers-by on the street. An interview with Martha Davis.

The Balkan Lynx

Social totem rather than a gauge of environmental health.

Eisenstein Under the Bombs

A poetic howl against the idea of war in Ukraine and its

Recipes on the road to spring

Not winter, not spring. Finding the right dishes for an in-

Rewriting history to justify current actions

Pushback against a university changing its name. By Gilbert

The Protest Legacy of Spirituals, Part 2

. . . and its incalculable effect on the civil rights

Letter from the Borderlands in Exile

"Back the bags, we have to leave." On re-inventing life

The Protest Legacy of Spirituals

The codes embedded in spirituals that helped propel the

How to Lay a Hedge

Tips on the art of boundaries . . . and some valuable

When a Thin Place Discovers Us

On bumping up against the unknowable. By Edward O'Connor.

Ecstatic Cities

Visual commentaries on evolving urban environments . . .

Gaia and the Path of the Earth

Sorting out some opposing views on the living Earth. By

What all that yelling is about

On getting one's feathers in a knot. By Kim Hoff.