Proust Imperfect

The Englishman who interpreted France’s greatest novel

Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator By Jean Findlay

Road Show

The woodblock prints of Utagawa Hiroshige

No Wonder It Quakes

A massive aspen grove with a single root system might be immortal, or might be heading for extinction

Meeting the Test of Time

Why some wordsmiths stay and others fade away

Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame By H. J. Jackson

Meeting the Mystics

My California encounters with Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley

Break With the Cast

Four Poems
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States of Change

The new American quarter and the decline of civilization

The Embattled First Amendment

The Supreme Court is interpreting free speech in new ways that threaten our democracy

Above and Beyond

Doomed to Re-Tweet It

Hearts With One Purpose

A revealing group portrait of Ireland’s motley crew of rebels

Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890–1923 By R. F. Foster

A Terrible Loss

Lincoln’s assassination 150 years ago turned plans for postwar reconciliation to a frenzy of violence

A Taste for Higher Math

The numbers that count

How to Bake π: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics By Eugenia Cheng

Whither American Culture?

Kill the Creature

In search of snakes—and the balm of charity and love in a world of infinitely lonely space

Cooking Up Trouble in the Heartland

Great Escape

On Normandy’s coast a century ago, Claude Debussy fled the war and composed his final piano masterpiece

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