Cover art: "Untitled #132," 2005. Photograph by Simen Johan, courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.
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November/December 2011
Features
Feature
The Reign of the One Percenters
by Christopher Ketcham
Income inequality is stunting cultural evolution and eroding the prospects for the future of humanity. So where is the outrage?
Feature
Holy Water
Photographs by Francesco Zizola / NOOR, Text by Stephan Faris
In the conflict-torn desert around Israel, water does not necessarily flow downhill.
Web extra: audio slide show.
Feature
Deep Intellect
by Sy Montgomery
When you gaze into the eye of a giant octopus, don't underestimate what's going on inside that big, squishy head.
Feature
Freebirds
by Michael P. Branch
What to make of a nation that pardons turkeys while putting lots of other innocent beings in its crosshairs?
Web extra: audio of the author reading this essay.
Feature
Five Modern Crusoes
by Nigel Pitman
Fiction: The urge to start over is a universal story, but how we approach the challenge is a matter of character.
Feature
The Rainmakers
by Kathryn Flagg
The urge to control the weather with outdated weaponry becomes a job-creation program in China.
Feature
An Unlikely Urban Garden
Paintings by Lisa Adams
Portfolio: An homage to nearby nature in downtown Los Angeles.
Feature
Uprooted
by Andrei Codrescu
A poet finds home in the Ozarks and discovers the folk artist within.
This article is not available on the web, but please enjoy this audio interview with the author.
Columns
Small Change
The Era of Small and Many
by Bill McKibben
We are living through a giant turning of the tide, away from the brittle and toward the resilient.
Upping the Stakes
Bright Green Reality Check
by Derrick Jensen
Believing what you want to believe doesn't make it true.
Departments
From the Editors
From the Editors
Gratitude and despair...
The Place Where You Live
The Place Where You Live
In this department of the magazine, we offer a space for people to exercise their sixth sense and tell us about their place, their connection to it, its history and future and imaginary life, in words and pictures. It's an ongoing web feature as well. In this issue: Linda M. Hasselstrom, on Hermosa, South Dakota; Colin Williams, on The Wash, East Anglia, United Kingdom; Beth Surdut, on Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Rebecca Durham Whithed, on The Bitterroot Valley, Montana.
Media & The Arts
Glass Gardens
by Cecily Parks
Contemplating flowers that neither smell nor sway in the wind.
Coda
Remembering the Weather
by Nico Alvarado
"Byword for boredom, grist in the mill of the old and dull, weather is the great unmentionable of good conversation..."
Reviews
Last Man in Tower, by Aravind Adiga
What's Gotten Into Us?, by McKay Jenkins
Loving Animals, by Kathy Rudy
Rat Island, by William Stolzenburg
Come, Thief, by Jane Hirshfield
The Tree, by John Fowles
Poetry
Saturn's Rings, by Ellen Bass
Dear Suburb, by David Roderick
Way Out Where, by Eva Hooker
Bitter Lake, by William Wenthe
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