In Ireland, Halloween (Samhain) is a major temporal hinge—when the year turns from light to dark, and the boundary between the living and dead, the fantastic and the mundane, grows gossamer thin.

iT TOOK HER SOME TIME to read ayn rand. ants, after all, communicate via pheromones, and finding atlas shrugged and the fountainhead in pheromonic translations is easier said than done. and it could ...

All species of birds. Every species I’ve studied has its own language, dialects, customs, and tribes. They have deep long-lasting relationships and unique personalities. They engage in complex ...

A FEW SUMMERS AGO, I took a class on art-making and attention at Maine Media College with Éireann Lorsung. For five days, we walked, bound books, painted, wrote, listened and looked, did experiments, ...

Clare Follmann, M.E.S., is an environmentalist and the author of Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong. Her writing engages with themes of ecology, language, politics, and philosophy.

SOMETIMES REVENGE IS the only first response to betrayal. Then comes the journey toward healing. When Beyoncé’s husband, rapper and music mogul Jay-Z, cheated on her with the now infamous “Becky with ...

IT IS SPRING IN HOUSTON, which means that each day the temperature rises and so does the humidity. The bricks of my house sweat. In my yard the damp air condenses on the leaves of the crepe myrtle ...

To depict a loveless and macabre world—a world of the scarecrow acting as the Lord of blood-thirsty crows, of the harridan decked out as a beauty queen . . . a world of debased flesh and servile ...

DURING THE OPENING CREDITS of the hit HBO series The Last of Us, a river of slime mold wends its way through darkness, through bushy foliate jelly mushrooms, arboreal earth tongues, and xylaroids, ...

LAKE SUPERIOR ON A CALM DAY has a depth clarity of over a hundred feet. In shallow waters, boulders appear to be just below the surface. Near shore, trash creates a timeline of occupation: plates, ...

A PHOTO OF A REDWOOD’S muscular, six-hundred-year-old base. To the left a fun-sized woman, in the Bay Area only briefly and wanting to make the most of it, trying to hug the tree’s ancient girth. She ...