Monuments to What?

Up and Down

“How Bad Is Your Pain?”

Notes on the nature of suffering

Autumn 2017

Israel: Occupational Hazards

Confronting academic freedom and racism in an oppressive state

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

The Price Isn’t Right

Premium ticket costs mean that Broadway shows are increasingly the province of tourists with deep pockets

A Jane Austen Kind of Guy

I get it that women find my affinity for their writer intrusive, but her world has much to offer men, too

The Doctor’s Discontents

A harshly critical new biography of the father of psychotherapy

Freud: The Making of an Illusion by Frederick Crews

A Dream of a Writer

Peter Taylor’s stories reveal an artist immersed in the quotidian who rose to the complexities of the heart and psyche

Wave of Anguish

Could disobedience have saved a group of Japanese students?

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry

A Bronx Tale

Photographing the story beyond stereotypes and headline news

Opioids and Paternalism

To help end the crisis, both doctors and patients need to find a new way to think about pain

Listen Up

Five questions about the future of communication

Metropolis Rising

How the Big Apple took its place among the world’s great cities

Greater Gotham: A History of New York City From 1898 to 1919 by Mike Wallace

Glimpses of Home

Intimate films from two late Chicago directors

Antiquarian Dreams

Sometimes it’s okay to judge history by its cover

Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World by Christopher de Hamel

Still Wilderness

What are we feeling when we are feeling joy? And where inside us does that feeling reside?

Out of the Woods?

Bringing back the wild tigers of India

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