When nature is its own protagonist
Amitav Ghosh’s book sings the ancestral story of nutmeg.
Todd Field’s movie about a megalomaniacal musician is, like his earlier films, interested in moral ambiguity.
In Joel I encounter the God who has counted what I’ve lost and promised to pay it back.
A fresh translation of Nelly Sachs’s later poems
For Sachs, flight is multivalent: her flight from the Nazis, any refugee’s flight from oppression, God’s flight from God.
Traveling to find home
Tom Fate’s essays present an ethically complicated journey of discovery.