A Day in the Life

Reading Joyce’s Ulysses as a guide to urban living

Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce’s Masterpiece By Declan Kiberd

Living on $500,000 a Year

What F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns reveal about his life and times

Notes from the Earth

Running Yangtze rapids, following Afghan herdsmen, four-wheeling Australia’s Jack Hills—intimate contacts with natural landscapes

Labor

Art in the Time of War

A prescient and courageous few safeguarded Italy’s patrimony

The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II By Ilaria Dagnini Brey, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A Mindful Beauty

What poetry and applied mathematics have in common

The Common Good

The case for a standardized curriculum for all American children

The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools By E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Armchair Travelers

The Renaissance writers and humanists Petrarch and Boccaccio turned to geography to understand the works of antiquity

Film Release

A woman’s burdened life and transcendent photographs

Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits By Linda Gordon

Mother Country

A daughter examines a life played out in romantic defiance of bad fortune

Bach to the Lituus

An American in Prague

Lithium, Water, and Suicide

The Inexhaustible Florentine

Bette Davis Eye Sockets

Call of the Crustacean

Whither Synthetic Biology?

Schloss, or Schlock?

The Doctor Is IN

At 88, Aaron Beck is now revered for an approach to psychotherapy that pushed Freudian analysis aside

The End of Things

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