Found in Translation

A poet learns how to feel and see and think and sound in the language of his adopted home

A Brief History of Secession

Why Calexit might not be as crazy as you think

Boom and Bust

Capturing the boom and bust of fracking in the Bakken

More Than Human

The dawn of a technologically enhanced super-species is upon us

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

A More Mindful Economy

Applying Buddhism to the “dismal science”

Robocops and Robbers

Criminal justice in the age of digital spying and surveillance

Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman

On Political Correctness

Power, class, and the new campus religion

One Nation Under God

The contentious role of Christianity in politics

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald; Simon &amp

Spheres of Influence

Telling the story of Native American explorers

Interstates

How My Italian-American husband ate his way into the good graces of my African-American family

The Cloistered Books of Peru

A convent in the Andes is home to a treasure trove of rare, and possibly unique, early volumes

Alaska’s Close-Up

“Time to Plant Tears”

An intimate biography of one of the 20th century’s great poets

Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast by Megan Marshall

Scenes from a Lost World

Remember when urban life was gritty and bleak, but also poetic?

Keeping Faith

After a loss from which there is no recovery, I turned to books—not for solace or forgetting, but simply to survive

Shorter Means Sweeter

Taking Old Abe to Task

A historian’s uncommonly grim view of the Great Emancipator

Six Encounters with Lincoln: A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons by Elizabeth Brown Pryor

The Virtual Forest

(Full Disclosure)

Conflicts, more or less of interest

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