August leaves you wanting. In the afternoon, when the air is all milk-and-honey and the primal thrum of late summer has reached a crescendo, she will boldly take your hand. “Close your eyes,” [...]
Pretty as a Picture Artist’s home captures bygone America By Deborah Salomon • Photographs by John Gessner Monet painted from a studio adjacent to his country home in Giverny. Van Gogh rented [...]
Snap the Whip Winslow Homer (1872) You know the game: everybody runs hard as they can, holding hands, and then the boy on the near end suddenly stops, sets his feet hard against the [...]
Fiction by Etaf Rum Illustration by Marie-Louise Bennett The stitch was starting to come undone, shedding fine, thin threads at the corners of her mouth. For as long as she could remember, she [...]
A sculpture grows in the Gardens Photographs by Tim Sayer Patrick Dougherty’s most recent sculpture, What Goes Around, Comes Around, blossomed in three weeks from a dogwood flower. After laying a [...]
Donald and Aleck Ross left indelible marks on golf and Pinehurst By Bill Case Even the closest of brothers look to pulverize one another in competition. This was undoubtedly the case at the North [...]
Fiction by Daniel Wallace Illustrations by Lyudmila Tomova On our last day at the beach the sun came out, and the fog, which for that whole week had draped the shore in a veil of cotton, burned [...]
By Frances Mayes Illustration by Gerry O’Neill During the pandemic, I became enthralled with The New York Times word game, the Spelling Bee. I’d never been attracted to crossword puzzles, Mensa [...]
America’s oldest mystery gets a new look, a new life and a new vision By Gary Pearce • Photographs by Joshua Steadman A drive that takes 30 minutes to an hour from the Outer Banks takes you [...]
On an Okra Flower On an Okra Flower A pollinating wasp sliding from white lip to purple darkness, the shadow-heart so deep inside, the plant, itself, tall African in the kitchen garden’s last [...]
