In the city, nature is but a walk, bike, or bus ride away. Consider the pigeon pair picking French fries off the ground who are probably mated for life, will teach their young valuable survival skills ...

ALISON: There’s a spring-fed pool here full of turtles, fish, salamanders, crawfish, plants, mosses, and birds. I swim in it as often as I can, and it’s magical. I feel such recognition with the ...

Mami spends her days working as a lawyer in an air-conditioned office. My sister and I await her arrival every afternoon, our ...

Sabrina Imbler is the author of How Far the Light Reaches, winner of a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a staff writer at ...

Future Imperfect is a four-part series guest-edited by Nathaniel Rich that published online from October 2024 to February ...

WE GOT TO YOSEMITE IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON. It was before the drought, and the trees were all green. James drove around the traffic-clogged loop road while I gawked. He told me what everything was ...

A parent’s concessions in a changing climate ...

MY BOSS AND I SIT in his extended cab, Dunkin’ coffee in big cupholders, and our only common interest: making furniture. We arrive in the Far Rockaways after spending five hours with nothing to talk ...

HEADING NORTH, FOLLOWING THE tang of boggy rivers and the sweetness of pines on the air, I like to imagine that I could smell my way home, like a salmon navigating to its natal stream. Closer and ...

AFTER ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF of dating, Sam and I decided he should move into my house. We had each lived with partners before, but those moves had been swayed by financial stress and global ...