Mitch Epstein/Sikkema Jenkins & Company, New York Weeping Beech, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2011. More Photos » For little more than a year, Mitch Epstein has been photographing trees around New York City , often setting out before dawn with an assistant a

Feb 09, 2012 Rylander does a great job of really getting into the psyche of Mac, a sixth-grade boy who sets up shop in the fourth stall of a bathroom located in a wing of his school that is no longer used. He helps kids solve their problems—with a teache

I didn’t visit the park in order to write this story, because I don’t have to: I know it like I know my backyard. I grew up in Encino, about a half mile from the park, and Los Encinos was my personal retreat, my youth’s ideal companion. It’s where I went

I found the answers to these questions and more in journalist Stefanie Syman’s 400-page book, The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America. (I’m also eagerly anticipating next month’s release of New York Times science writer William Broad’s 336-page yog

Many people remember the book Walden as the story of a hermit living in a hut who survived on twigs and berries in the Concord, Massachusetts woods. Its author, Henry David Thoreau, was no hermit, but a survivalist and philosopher who personified the bes

Many people remember the book Walden as the story of a hermit living in a hut who survived on twigs and berries in the Concord, Massachusetts woods. Its author, Henry David Thoreau, was no hermit, but a survivalist and philosopher who personified the bes