How plants decide their size: Study maps plant growth strategies across roots, leaves, and stems

What makes plants grow to a certain size? From the tiniest cells to whole leaves, roots, and stems, growth has to be ...

When I’m Sick of Doomscrolling, I Turn to This Poem

Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...
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Art takes root with trees that branch out to women with depression

I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree… A tree that may in Summer wear / A nest of robins in her hair; Upon ...
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Books

September 18, 2025 • A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're ...