Country music is surging, female singer-songwriters are on top, and audiences crave honest voices like hers. She was more generous than you may have known

Forget the staycation. Research reveals that travel can build stress resilience, sharpen cognitive health and ward off depression far better than staying home

The iconic example of ‘organic architecture,’ constructed as a lodge for weekend getaways, embedded a modern building in the landscape in a radical vision of the way each could enhance the other.

Books from Mac Barnett and Katherine Rundell argue for the value of imaginative, engrossing tales that can engage readers young and old alike.

Dolly Parton was fiercely protective of her songwriting catalog when even the Beatles and the Rolling Stones failed to maintain control. That conviction became the powering force as she expanded beyond music.

Personal candor on national TV about our dysfunctional national malaise

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It wasn’t about showbiz. It was about sovereignty. Related Photos From an Extraordinary Life and Career

Sellers are enjoying a jump in sales but fretting over whether irreplaceable books are being ‘sent to the guillotine’ to train models

The printing press gave us objective truth. Social media made truth tribal again. AI could make it something else entirely. Truth becomes situational, relative, negotiated, and tribal again.

The finalist selections for this year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year competition were just announced by the organizers at Oceanographic Magazine, featuring some of the best coastal, drone, and underwater photographs chosen from thousands of submissions.

The Rhine, the Rhône and the Po rivers all have their sources in the Alps. Each has shaped a nation’s history.

Paige McClanahan’s book, The New Tourist, argues for recognizing how potent travel’s social force is.

The trick to winning is to not “know everything.”

Reading fiction may strengthen the social skills we use to understand and connect with others. Thanks Pam!

A psychiatrist says engaging with the arts not only helps biologically. It can also make you feel more alive.

Four artists and a curator debate the most important works since the end of World War II. Related: He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of

Best-selling author David Baldacci writes that fiction is being underutilized in the fight against unreality

The 20th century was different from today in many, many ways, but let’s focus for now on a simple one: Back then, bodybuilding and computer science seemed like profoundly different worlds. Who among us imagined that they would soon start to feel culturally and intellectually adjacent? But maybe the end of the millennium offered one tiny hint: These were the two fields in which it was normal to ask what somebody’s “stack” was.

When it comes to technology, the answer to the future could come from the past.