Essay Memory The Sensitive Plant By Virginia Morell The two-hundred-year search for botanical memory. More
Essay Book of Nature And Such Small Deer By Garret Keizer A writer struggles to defend his trees from a pack of hungry deer—“an episode of great vexation and buffoonery.” More
Essay Crimes & Punishments Murder in Black & White By Nathaniel Rich A history of film noir, America’s cinematic take on life on the bottom. More
Essay Spies Agents of Betrayal By Lawrence Osborne A reconsideration of Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana. More
Essay Family A Harmony in Living By Garret Keizer Happy families are indeed all alike in calling forth the best of their members’ humanity. More
Essay Death Last Meals By Brent Cunningham The choice of the final meal contains a curious paradox: why mark the end of a life with the stuff that fuels it? More
Essay Travel Take Nothing, Leave Nothing By Simon Winchester How I came to be banned from the world’s most remote island, Tristan da Cunha. More
Essay Communication Word for Word By Ben Zimmer Peter Mark Roget’s Thesaurus was the creation of an obsessive list-maker that became a tool and a temptation for generations of writers. 8.3.4 More
Essay About Money Fortune’s Wheel By Jackson Lears For many in Western history, games of chance represented a portal of possibility, not a heresy to be demonized or a statistical probability to be managed. More
