Distracted by our own devices
I’ve become the sort of person who checks her phone constantly. I did not have to go this way.
Books
Vincent van Gogh, Still Life With French Novels and Rose, oil on canvas, 1887.
Holiness in every drop
Judith Schwartz and Michael E. Webber each call attention to the challenges facing the water over which the Spirit broods.
Elegies without consolation
An anthology of poetry mourning the demise of the Church of England
A rabbi’s memoir of making a family
Anyone with a complicated life and family—all of us—will find a home in Susan Silverman’s story.
Thinking with trans
Rogers Brubaker considers transracial and transgender identities together.
Our voices, ourselves
The voice contains the power of breath, part divine and part human.
A do-gooder’s tale
D. L. Mayfield wanted to help Somali refugees. She ended up mostly baking them cupcakes.
A didactic, irresistible novel
Leonard Pitts's story is so compelling that you barely notice how much you're learning.
At home in exile
In a time of American inhospitality, Jan Holton offers a compelling vision.
The joy of things and the trap of excess
An ethicist and an anthropologist ask: How much is too much?
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