Long Form

What happens when we play the record of our lives backward?

The pathos—and consequences—of our longing to be shiny happy people

Isabel Crawford—a deaf Baptist missionary to the Kiowa—practiced a more excellent way

Sometimes, like Naaman, you just need to bathe in the Jordan

This food is adequate to our need

A case for a modest American patriotism (with some help from Mexico)

A writer reflects on the art—and wonder—of meaningful exchange

The recently resigned editor-in-chief of World has a story to tell—and a warning to offer

Thirty years after Mark Heard’s death he’s still showing us what we’ve missed

Great transformations of moral perception make debtors of us all—if we have eyes to see

Can the perfect attention our devices seek from us be turned in better directions?