Picture New Orleans A gallery of images from photographer Tema Stauffer showing aspects of New Orleans—abandoned lives, startling ruin, subtle beauty—you can’t catch on CNN.

New Fidelities Our perceptions age with the cities around us – old thoughts are razed, new theories go up, the subway seems less confusing. But what about that band we loved as teenagers? What happened to them? Jonathan Bell revisits Whitehouse 13 years later, now wearing earplugs.

Beyond Black Dogs and Mice A survey of creatures which foreshadow depression, and their literary origins. Paul Ford gives the lowdown on the beasts that portend misery.

A View From the Crow’s Wood You would’ve paid more attention in history class if they taught you what early Dutch settlements were really like. An opportunity to sift through the artifacts at an 18th century Hudson Valley home reveals a way of life that is as odd as it is oddly familiar.