Saturday, May 27, 2017
Letter From
Athens: Rocking the Cradle of Democracy
Austerity was supposed to make Greece more efficient, but it seems to be imperiling the country’s future
John Psaropoulos
Measure by Measure
The Canyons, the Stars, and the Realm Beyond
Olivier Messiaen’s tribute to America
Sudip Bose
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Full Disclosure Fridays
The New York literary life
On Keeping a Blog
A Farewell
Phillip Lopate
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Brazil by Way of Bach
The music of Heitor Villa-Lobos
Sudip Bose
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View from Rue Saint-Georges Wednesdays
The Price of Assimilation
Reverence vs. resemblance
Thomas Chatterton Williams
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WISE TO THE WORDS
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A Brief History of Secession
Why Calexit might not be as crazy as you think
Richard Striner
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Robocops and Robbers
Criminal justice in the age of digital spying and surveillance
Jill Leovy
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On Political Correctness
Power, class, and the new campus religion
William Deresiewicz
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One Nation Under God
The contentious role of Christianity in politics
Dennis Covington
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
The Life Unlived
By By André Aciman
The novelist W. G. Sebald would have been 73 this week. Read André Aciman’s ode to the man who mastered the uncertainties of time—though he himself did not get enough of it.
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Red: The History of a Color
By Michel Pastoureau
This week, read an excerpt from a new book about the shade of love and rage
