Nominated for a National Magazine Award, our second print issue features Hilton Als on Prince's Eyes, How Adderall Changed America, Sex with Neanderthals, New Fiction by Isle McElroy, Ordering Elements, and more.

Is Aging a Disease?

Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe? Did you suddenly seem to understand everything?

Psychedelic trips might only feel so similar to NDEs because our experiences of mysticism are so few and far between—it may, in fact, be closer to the difference between looking through a telescope and setting foot on the moon.

I asked him once to compare the two. “What’s the difference between the DMT and dying? Dying’s better. Nothing’s as good as death.” 

Few Drugs Like Dying

“They convert sunlight into honey,” he said. “Is this not sacred enough?”

In cultures all over the world, bees were regarded as the winged couriers to the otherworld—to send a message to the dead, one told the bees.

Telling the Bees

Death cafes mirror our death-averse social worlds, and reveal the insufficiencies in our cultures and infrastructures that necessitate them in the first place.

Death Cafes Are Alive!

At Green-Wood, meandering pathways were intentionally designed to feel labyrinthine: turning the visitor into a wanderer, it was felt, facilitated better contemplation of death.

Artists have the unique ability to address difficult topics with beauty and candor, and so are singularly suited to help shift the current attitude toward death and dying.

The Graveyard Shifts Again

If a secular society has discredited the forms of grief prescribed by religious cultures, then we need new ones. Grieving alone won’t work. 

You’re watching a young woman smile softly as she tells you her father died with his favorite socks on. 

Generation Death

Harry Weil

Eiko Otake

As an artist and as a human being, thinking and knowing is not enough. I need to feel it so deeply that I cannot forget.

Eiko Otake: A Body in a Cemetery

In a cemetery we give away our power of planning and our power of choreography. We become an extension of the landscape and the time this cemetery holds.  


Life in the Shadow

If wheat sprouts from my grave

Your laughter turns the world to paradise

This time, I'm wrapped and entwined in Love

When we die, we marry eternity

On the day I die

Don't Come to My Grave Without a Drum

Eulogy for the Minks of Denmark and the World

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Death Poems from Eileen Myles

What we really mean when we say we die is that we stop functioning as a coherent whole. 

If the goal is to ensure that our genes are passed on, why has evolution not prevented aging in the first place?

The death of an animal or a human is really the death of the vessel. 

Why We Die

Sense and Senescence

everything is tentative
even when penciled
in with pen      learned
a banana has a hundred
calories           I changed
my mind art is full of
citations I’ll try to go
to everything before
my mouth      decays
nothing but poetry
in a waiting room
with dead branches
hanging      outside

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6:50 AM — Meditate 
7:05 AM — Teeth pulling with coconut oil
7:10 AM — Drink hot water with lemon juice
7:15 AM — Catch up on emails/texts/latest scientific articles while drinking matcha tea (rich in polyphenols and EGCG)
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David Sinclair

Ali Brivanlou

A Good Time, or a Long Time?

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CEO Announcement

Just Announced: Pioneer Works Names Mara Manus Chief Executive Officer

The Board of Directors of Pioneer Works is pleased to announce that Mara Manus, former Executive Director for New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), has been appointed as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. 

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