Cremation

To Be a Field of Poppies

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Lisa Wells, Ann Neumann on October 11, 2021

Compost yourself: on the social, psychological, and ecological implications of rethinking what happens to our bodies after we die Read More

by Lisa Wells,

The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost

From the website of Holy Smoke, a memorial-services company based in Alabama. Read More

by Nell Freudenberger,

Can India’s Parsis survive their own success?

by Herodotus, Tom Holland,

From a new translation of Herodotus’ The Histories, by Tom Holland, out this month from Viking. Read More

by Harper’s Staff,

by David Maisel,

by Harper’s Staff,

by George Michelsen Foy,

The brief life and private burial of an infant son

by Harper’s Staff,

Translated by Griswald Dichter,