Since January, TikTok users have seen videos about a commune in Tennessee on their For You pages. The Garden is a 12-year-old collective-living community focusing on a "low impact" lifestyle. Members ...

Kristen Ghodsee, author of Everyday Utopia, talks about the benefits of communal living—or at least of embracing a broader definition of community. If you buy something using links in our stories, we ...

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. In the commune I ...

In Emmanuelle’s Bayamack-Tam’s “Arcadia,” a teenager is sorting through life while living on a commune in the hills of eastern France. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site ...

Twelve small homes sit upon acres of manicured lawn in the Texas countryside. Under the warm sun, the residents that call this gated community home live a rather idyllic life: there’s a fit pit, yoga, ...