Essays

A conversation with wildlife photographer, author, and conservationist Staffan Widstrand

the Fall 2019 issue

Two acclaimed filmmakers open this issue of Parabola: Martin Scorsese, director of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Casino, Kundun, Silence, and other masterpieces including this Fall’s offering, The Irishman; and Kent Jones, creator of this year’s Diane and director of the New York Film Festival. Scorsese writes of forgiveness; Jones discusses how forgiveness informs and illuminates Scorsese’s movies. What stands out in both men’s essays and in their art is an understanding that we each exist in a web of meaningful relationship; that what we do matters, that we each have a responsibility to others and to the world. Read more>

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Rewilding: A Conversation with Staffan Widstrand, by Eleanor O’Hanlon

The Courageous Mary Oliver, by Lisa Starr

Watching the Wild Things, by Tracy Cochran

The LSD Experience, by Laurence Rosenthal

For a Man There’s an Order in Life, by James Opie

In the Midst of Winter, an Invincible Summer, by Tracy Cochran

Living the Moment of Love, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

The Simple Joy of Being, by Adyashanti

A Moment with Mister Rogers, by Jeff Zaleski

The Calling, by Lucinda Herring

Learning to Die, by Brother David Steindl-Rast

The Art of Cleaning, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart

Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine, by Patty de Llosa

Hearing the Cries of the World, by Mark Nepo

The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, by Cynthia Bourgeault