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The World's Largest Refugee Camp: A Photo Essaby by Saleh Ahmed

The World’s Largest Refugee Camp
A Photo Essay by Saleh Ahmed

May 24, 2019

Life in refugee camps is far different from most of our daily experiences. Since August 2017, large-scale ethnic violence in northwest Myanmar... Read More...

The Lawns, So Well-Tended
by Ana Maria Spagna

April 25, 2019

Nonfiction

2

The lawns wowed me daily, the green green grass and the sidewalks swept of leaves and the neighbors on the weekends in work gloves and shorts,... Read More...

Two Pastorals
by Marvin Shackelford

March 5, 2019

Fiction

1

Loose Pastoral Beech Hill, Tennessee 1. One of the guys Jana brought down from Culleoka walks off up the hill and comes back later ... Read More...

Letting Go of Thoreau:
Renewing America’s Legacy
by Daniel Bullen

February 28, 2019

Nonfiction

9

Henry David Thoreau’s 200th birthday has come and gone, but having read all the homages, it’s clear that our critiques of his hypocrisy haven’... Read More...

At the Good School
by Anne Beatty

February 20, 2019

Nonfiction

A phalanx of white girls—long, shiny hair, post-orthodontic smiles, tiny skirts—greets anyone visiting the school where I teach. These near li... Read More...

A Life of Science:
The Human Story of Transformation
in Coastal Bangladesh
by Saleh Ahmed

August 22, 2018

A Life of Science, Currents, To Know a Place

1

A Series by New Scientists Most people in Bangladesh have experiences with natural hazards. I am not an exception. Since childhood, ... Read More...

Letter to America
by Tina Kelley

July 31, 2018

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

Guest Editorial Dear America, The world provides, so maybe my hike in the woods is a narrative, a lesson, a Language-of-Flowers bou... Read More...

Letter to America
by Lisa M. O’Neill

July 4, 2018

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

1

Guest Editorial Dear America, Four years ago, I developed tinnitus. The name for the condition comes from the Latin, tinnire: ... Read More...

Letter to America
by John Janovy, Jr.

May 11, 2018

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

Guest Editorial Dear America, We as a nation are being drowned by a narrative of fear and anger that now drives policy ... Read More...

Letter to America: The Little Painter, by Joy Castro

Letter to America
by Joy Castro

January 29, 2018

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

The Little Painter I am just a little painter, a painter of small things. In the National Palace of Mexico, I saw that artist... Read More...

Letter to America
by Andrew Yang

January 14, 2018

Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America

Guest Editorial Dear America, I struggle to keep track and find my way through the pages of your continentally vast volume, ... Read More...

Letter to America Poem by Elizabeth Aoki

Letter to America
by Elizabeth Aoki

June 30, 2017

Letter to America, Poetry

Click button above to hear Elizabeth Aoki read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. Dear America, We st... Read More...

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