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Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

Cover Story

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

ARTICLES

American Carthage
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Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present

Asteroid Hunters
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The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks

Lessons From Harlem
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A white blues player’s streetside education

Maximalisma
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A professor endeavors to separate treasure from trash—before her children have to do it for her

Raspberry Heaven
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A yearly back-yard harvest opens a door to the divine

In the Matter of the Commas
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For the true literary stylist, this seemingly humble punctuation mark is a matter of precision, logic, individuality, and music

American Carthage
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Echoes from the ancient conflicts between Hannibal’s city and Rome continue to reverberate well into the present

Asteroid Hunters
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The scientists and engineers who defend our planet day and night from potentially hazardous space rocks

Lessons From Harlem
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A white blues player’s streetside education

Maximalisma
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A professor endeavors to separate treasure from trash—before her children have to do it for her

Raspberry Heaven
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A yearly back-yard harvest opens a door to the divine

In the Matter of the Commas
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For the true literary stylist, this seemingly humble punctuation mark is a matter of precision, logic, individuality, and music

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

After the Fallout
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On jellyfish babies, my father’s pain, and the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific

Mr. Olympia
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When the ancient Greeks looked at human muscle, they saw something different than we do

book reviews

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

Can weaning oneself off pharmaceuticals ease the cycle of perpetual suffering?

Who’s to Say?
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A bewildering take from a noted scholar of Christianity

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines

Once More, Without Feeling

Can a memoir be effective when it lacks any warmth?

Electrons That Bind

The molecule at the center of everything

Food for Thought

A pragmatic approach to one of humanity’s gravest threats

Splitting Our Sides

A new biography of a comedy pioneer