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Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages

Patricia Smith on How a Poet Ages

Growing Older and Forging Connection Through Poetry

By Patricia Smith | October 6, 2025

On Marina Abramović and the Radical Notion of the Third Act

On Marina Abramović and the Radical Notion of the Third Act

Ellen O’Connell Whittet Considers the Long Life of Art

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | June 25, 2025

Defeating Death: On the Motivations and Methods of People Who Want to Live Forever

Defeating Death: On the Motivations and Methods of People Who Want to Live Forever

Amy Larocca Explores Some of the Most Extreme Manifestations of Contemporary Wellness Culture

By Amy Larocca | May 14, 2025

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Suddenly Old, Suddenly the Other: On the Unfamiliar World of Aging

Douglas J. Penick Considers Time, Transitions, and Classical Music

By Douglas J. Penick | April 3, 2025

An Ageist Disease: On Living in Fear of Alzheimer’s

An Ageist Disease: On Living in Fear of Alzheimer’s

Andrea Gilats o Explores Confounding Questions of Aggression, Identity Shifts, and Care for the Afflicted

By Andrea Gilats | November 21, 2024

Nick Hornby: The Older You Get, the Less Time You Have for Bad Books

Nick Hornby: The Older You Get, the Less Time You Have for Bad Books

“Reading a bad novel when you are approaching pensionable age is like taking the time left available to you and setting it on fire.”

By Nick Hornby | October 29, 2024

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Language, Loss and Nostalgia: On Growing Old As a Learning Experience

By Julie Sedivy | October 16, 2024

Why We Need More (and Better) Depictions of Older People in Literature

By Anna Johnston | September 13, 2024

Crip-Walking at the Commencement: Jerald Walker on the Shifting Significance of Black Gestures

By Jerald Walker | September 10, 2024

What Longer Lifespans Mean For Overall Human Health

What Longer Lifespans Mean For Overall Human Health

Andrew J. Scott on Aging and Disease in the Modern World

By Andrew J. Scott | April 26, 2024

Julia Alvarez on Falling in Love with Writing Again

Julia Alvarez on Falling in Love with Writing Again

“Resets are necessary throughout a writing life.”

By Julia Alvarez | April 19, 2024

Why the Elderly Make the Best Customers: On Bookselling in an Aging Town

Why the Elderly Make the Best Customers: On Bookselling in an Aging Town

“I’ve grown to appreciate how aware of time I am, in a way that I wouldn’t be elsewhere.”

By Samantha Ladwig | April 18, 2024

Tide In, Tide Out: Anne Lamott on Growing Old and Making Peace with Death

Tide In, Tide Out: Anne Lamott on Growing Old and Making Peace with Death

“My father’s death feels like it was twenty years ago but it was more than forty-five.”

By Anne Lamott | April 10, 2024

Romance Finely Aged: On the Unique Dynamic of Older Couples

Romance Finely Aged: On the Unique Dynamic of Older Couples

Carys Davies Considers Fictional Representations of Romance Among the Elderly

By Carys Davies | March 28, 2024

How Cells’ Complex Choreography Sustains—and Ends—Human Life

How Cells’ Complex Choreography Sustains—and Ends—Human Life

Venki Ramakrishnan on the Interconnectedness of Humanity’s Constantly Moving Parts

By Venki Ramakrishnan | March 19, 2024

Fashionably Old: Lyn Slater on Aging With Attitude

Fashionably Old: Lyn Slater on Aging With Attitude

“It’s time to write a new story, to reuse in imaginative ways garments that already hang in my closet.”

By Lyn Slater | March 15, 2024

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