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Now boarding, all passengers, Flight 1900 to Vienna

Projections of Life

Memories of a Midwestern childhood and the stories only pictures can tell

Night Vision

On finding comfort and purpose in the dark

Family Tatters

A social experiment gone wrong

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille

The Whole World in His Hands

What a digital restoration of the most expensive painting ever sold tells us about beauty, authenticity, and the fragility of existence

Last Dance

At a World War II internment camp, George Igawa entertained thousands of incarcerated Japanese Americans—while teaching a band of novices how to swing

A Kingdom of Little Animals

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek’s discovery of microorganisms made possible the revolutionary advances in biology and medicine that continue to inform our Covid age

Frontline Oracle

A new biography of America’s most beloved grunt reporter

The Soldier’s Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II by David Chrisinger

We Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet

After Covid-19, what might be next?

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic by Emily Monosson

False Prophets

A recent film about a Black megachurch is often hilarious, but its flaws reside in the story it doesn’t tell

In the Mushroom

True foraging isn’t the domain of the weekend warrior; it’s serious, serious business

Asteroid Hunters

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

Who Would I Be Off My Meds

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

Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistanceby Laura Delano

Tiger Mom

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

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

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

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

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesusby Elaine Pagels

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

Chapters and Verse

Looking for the poet between the lines

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetryby Adam Plunkett

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

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