Keystone
Natural Selection
WE CALLED IT THE DESERT island game. Arriving at a train station or airport gate, you’d survey your fellow passengers—those with whom you were throwing in your body to hurl through Continue reading
Essays
Lay of the Land
Sex, Death, and Plants
UNTIL I VISITED CALIFORNIA CARNIVORES, the largest carnivorous plant nursery in the United States, I didn’t know there was a world of these plants beyond the Venus flytrap. I’d grown up Continue reading
Feature
Final Shift
I WAS EIGHTEEN the year I moved from Kampala, Uganda, to New York City and got my first waitressing job. I had no idea then that I’d be doing it for Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Spring Has Left Us
ON A THURSDAY MORNING in April, I walk into the Sunder Nursery Gardens in Delhi’s city center. These outings are a customary habit, instilled by my father when we were growing Continue reading
Feature
You Say You Want a Revolution
DECADES AGO, I WAS A reasonable person and I thought reasonable thoughts. One of them was that deep change—change that I could even then see was necessary—would grow from actions responding Continue reading