In Search of a Great Modernist

Do Proust’s final days illuminate his novel?

Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris By Richard Davenport-Hines

Tiny Tomes

Literature in miniature has a 500-year history, but what’s the appeal of a volume too small to read?

Response to Our Spring Issue

Summer

Rio: Feckless and Reckless

Story Time

The Man Who Got His Way

John Hammond, scion of white privilege, helped integrate popular music

The Ordinariness of AIDS

Can a disease that tells us so much about ourselves ever be anything but extraordinary?

The Sack of Baghdad

The U.S. invasion of Iraq has turned cultural icons into loot and archaeological sites into ruins

Miles from Nowhere

On a return trip to the wilderness of British Columbia, the author revisits a rough and exquisite landscape

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

Cats and Dogs

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Katie Heller Saltoun

Tenderness and grit

Magic Men

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel

Braña Curuchu

Under a Spell Everlasting

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war

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