In birding circles, they say the first bird you see in a new year sets the tone for what follows. Anything can be meaningful if you see it as a sign. On the first day of 2020, as I drove to an early ...

THE HOTEL WHERE I was staying, Villa Amazônia, was constructed in 1907, around the time the movie takes place. It had been a private residence, and many elements of the original building remain. It ...

IN MY BACKYARD, I have a makeshift pond: a galvanized steel tub, about two feet in diameter, outfitted with an electric ...

“From where I sit on this flat rock floor, I see no way out,” writes Renata Golden in Mountain Time: A Field Guide to Astonishment, her new book of essays. “The path wormholes in such crimped arcs ...

So much of today’s climate storytelling recounts the awe-inducing extraordinary: rampant wildfires, uncategorizable hurricanes, disastrously high tides, and deadly heat waves. But overshadowed in ...

OUTSIDE, IT’S BEGUN to rain. But inside Dramaten’s small-stage theater, the scene is electric. The low-ceilinged lobby is crammed with the wool-clad shoulders of theater professionals, young climate ...

“Deer walk the path of our childhood,” the Kentucky-born artist Rachael Banks writes in an artist’s book she designed. It shares a name with her recent show in Cincinnati’s Weston Art Gallery—“The ...

A rain deity capable of making the sun and moon disappear, or even the entire Universe, if desired. Caster of spells (of silence or dust devils), a precious pearl of wisdom tucked under a ...

North By Northwest Passage, gouache on paper, 22 x 22 in. Based on Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest (1959). LET ME PAINT THE SCENE: a house set a mile back in the woods, off-grid, with a steep ...

Our winter 2024, “Green Screen,” explores representations of nature in film—the ways, for better and worse, that we portray the natural world onscreen, and how these portrayals shape the way we look ...