I’ve noticed mischief is a common theme in your books. Have you ever had a begrudging ghost or roommate problem? MF: Yes! The ...

So when I published an essay during the summer of Barbenheimer that braided my nuclear obsession with my past grief, ...

THE WONDER WEEKS APP recently informed me that my baby understands the distance between objects, which means she understands when I am farther from her and when I am nearer. This means she sometimes ...

NOT LONG AGO while walking in the woods behind my house, a beech tree fell a few deer leaps away from me. When the tree hit the ground, I heard a sharp crack, then a thunderous thud, and my dog jumped ...

CRUISE SHIP COMPANIES, ever intent on garnering tourist dollars, have recarved the already scarred eastern coast of Central America and southern Mexico into a nonexisting region called the Costa Maya.

IN THE OPENING POEM of Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, the speaker comes across a fig tree growing in the middle of his city, and is invited by the tree’s owner to “take / as much [ fruit] as / you ...

THE CARIBOU AND WOLF, the fig and fig wasp, the monarch and milkweed —some species are so interdependent, they seem to constitute a single organism. John Vaillant’s debut novel, The Jaguar’s Children, ...

WILLIAM DEBUYS’S The Last Unicorn is not only a gorgeous adventure in one of the most remote forests on earth, but also a strategy for hope in an age of mass species extinction. Its portrait of ...

The carefully-tended longleaf pine forests of North America were plundered by European colonizers. They're still recovering.

WE LIVE IN AN AGE of technology indistinguishable from magic, especially in the realm of thinking machines. Among other tasks, you can ask ChatGPT, one of the world’s most advanced deep-learning ...