Where’s Warhol?
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Remembering George Walker

The Pathogen of Hate
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It’s time we took a medical approach to dealing with a different epidemic

Late Bloom

Building Up and Breaking Down

What happens when the structures we erect plunge us into despair?

Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy by Charlotte Van den Broeck (trans. from the Dutch by David McKay)

Birds of a Feather
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It’s not hard to see ourselves in the majestic, mysterious great blue heron

Dissident Lit
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Vladimir Nabokov and the novel that nourished the souls of a generation of would-be revolutionaries

Red Beans and Life
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The dish that is my mother’s legacy—and mine

Jena-Gadda-Da-Vida

The brief flowering of an intellectual mecca in 1790s Germany

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf

The Ephemeral Art

How a Russian impresario revolutionized dance

Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World by Rupert Christiansen

Verde

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

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

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

Double Exposure
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On our first memories

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

The Fair Fields
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Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil

Ideology as Anatomy

How shifting ideas about women’s bodies have affected their lives

Immaculate Forms: A History of the Female Body in Four Partsby Helen King

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

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

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