Darwin: The Evolution of a Life

A quip about Hitler made Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy enemies. A subway-platform truce made them friends for life

Evolution of Manhattan

After his 10-year-old daughter died, Darwin sought solace in his barnacles. For the naturalist, grief was best relieved by work

Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware

Walt Whitman, Shortly After His Paralytic Stroke, on What Makes Life Worth Living

Is Our Age of Mass Incarceration Collapsing?

Dispelling the Myth of Cormac McCarthy as Cowboy-Artist

America’s Hidden Millionaires

Homelessness Policy at a Crossroads

A History of the Novel in Britain

"Federal Judges Receive Life Tenure—Not a Life Sentence"

Artist and Philosopher Rockwell Kent’s Century-Old Meditations on Art and Life

Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

Ocean of Stars: A Painted Poem About How to Bear the Astonishment of Life

A life in episodes

How Sugar from Outer Space Became One of the Backbones of Life on Earth

The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Live in Wonder

This Obscure 1960s Guide to LSD Holds Up

What “Hey Jude” by The Beatles is Really About

Documenting the tech worker movement