Clint Smith

Readers respond to our October 2022 issue and more.

The 29-year-old deserved more chances to observe life’s ordinary miracles.

A poem by Clint Smith

A poem

What can memorials to tragedy in Germany tell Americans about how to remember slavery in the U.S.?

Harriet Beecher Stowe said that Josiah Henson’s life had inspired her most famous character. But Henson longed to be recognized by his own name, and for his own achievements.

He has promised to impose his harmful, erroneous claims on school curricula in a second term.

A reading list on fatherhood and the memories that stick

Photographing some of the oldest—and largest—living organisms on the planet

Thirty years after the genocide in Rwanda, survivors and perpetrators live side by side.