Gift-giving is a way of saying “I see you.” I see what you need and I see what I have to share. My well-being is tied to ...

Ackee and Cod had met before. The fruit of this tree is strange even for those of us who grew up eating it. Ackee’s outer ...

Our winter 2024, “Green Screen,” explores representations of nature in film—the ways, for better and worse, that we portray ...

AT ONE POINT, between June and August 2019, Las Vegas had been so thoroughly inundated by a swarm of grasshoppers, an estimated thirty metric tons’ worth, that hotel employees on Fremont Street used ...

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I THINK OFTEN OF an image by the artist David Wojnarowicz that I saw in a gallery years ago: a small, black-and-white photo of a swamp, the lights and darks reversed like a film negative. In the upper ...

TEN YEARS AGO, the first weekend after I moved to New York, I made the queer pilgrimage to Fire Island. I was twenty-three, and my memories are colorful blurs: A rainbow flag greets me at the dock. My ...

THIS PAST FALL, DreamWorks Animation released The Wild Robot, an animated feature film adapted from Peter Brown’s bestselling young adult book series. It follows a robot named Rozzum 7134 shipwrecked ...

LET US BEGIN WITH the eye of a bird. Hitchcock’s The Birds contains a famous shot where we shift from the human perspective to that of the murderous fowls. On the ground, the birds attack a gas ...

One of many inaccurate notes in my father’s sleep study interview, conducted three years before his Parkinsonian syndrome/Lewy body dementia diagnoses and five years before his death ...