Chris Arnade writes essays and photo dispatches from long walks, mostly through America and abroad, mixing reportage with reflection on books and ideas. Recent issues cover de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, the history of the integrated circuit, and updates on his health and travel plans.

A pastor's reflective weekly-style essays linking a church pond's fate to nature, grace and everyday life, each ending in a short prayer. Readers get careful nature writing, personal anecdotes about family and a standard poodle, and gentle theological reflection.

Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.

Personal essays on philosophy, ideas, American religion and propaganda, mixing memoir with literary and cultural reference. Readers get reflective, carefully crafted writing on attention, fear and how to stay grounded amid political and informational turmoil.