Kate Harris: ‘Children can’t understand why we don’t make dramatic changes to save the world’
On a 6,000-mile bicycle journey along the Silk Road, the author explored the notion of wildness – the Earth’s and her own
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‘Don’t worry, I won’t kill you’: inside the world of homeless tourism
From Prague to Los Angeles, tours led by homeless people are revealing the dark side of the city. But do they hurt the very people they aim to help?
Pod save America: podcasts to survive the Trump presidency
From soul-searching Democrats to the king of rightwing radio, here are the podcasts to help you understand the next four years
Journeys in Literature: Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades
Like Alice Munro, my grandmother came from small-town Ontario, and my memories chime with Munro’s tales of passionate girls and women with stifled passions
Lego: Can this kid’s toy help us build better cities?
Lego wants to be taken seriously by architects, urban planners, even MIT. Can these pricey kids’ toys teach us how to build better cities, or is it all just brand hype?
The film that makes me cry: Wild with Reese Witherspoon
I was worried that Reese Witherspoon’s desert odyssey would be mawkish – but with sarcasm and shared history, it punched me in the gut
