Gibney: Colonel Oleg Penkovsky

War by Other Means

Subverting governments with lies is nothing new

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

Image Was Everything

A new biography of the seminal pop artist of the 20th century

Warhol by Blake Gopnik

Kellman: Stone and his wife, Janice in Hawaii, c. 1979.

Not Quite Forgotten

The unheralded success ofa fine American novelist

Child of Light: A Biography of Robert Stone by Madison Smartt Bell

Making Their Voices Heard

The story behind passage of the 19th Amendment

Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol DuBois

Allen: David Carr

Poet of the Newsroom

A journalist with the unteachable gift of making you read on

Final Draft: The Collected Work of David Carr edited by Jill Rooney Carr

Kean: Galileo on trail at the Inquisition

Heaven and the Heretic

A brilliant scientist whose life is a cautionary tale

Galileo and the Science Deniers by Mario Livio

Glamour and Violence

A group portrait of the brutal Belle Époque

The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes

Searching for Amos Oz in Jerusalem

The acclaimed novelist, who died in 2018, translated Israeli reality

Spring 2020

Halpern: New software is often credited with being AI

No Ghost in the Machine

Artificial intelligence isn’t as intelligent as you think

Bernstein-Machlay: The human egg cherry-picks the precise sperm it wants

Why the Egg Matters

A meditation on remembrance, family, and time

Poissant: Fiction essay- Solstice

Solstice

We couldn’t advertise our grief, lest, years from now, friends and family would watch us sideways, waiting for an explosion from the bomb that never went off.

Trade Winds

I thought tenure meant I could retire with the team that drafted me

Owen: The author (left) and his pal John Ruth on their way to summer camp

My Hairy Past

Shoulder length or longer, my mane was about my looks, yes, but also about the need for justice

Dillard: Photography

Hunger
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McCarthy: Progress Report

Progress Report, Spring 2020

Autonomies

Responses to Our Winter 2020 Issue

Negative Space
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Philip Larkin was middle aged at birth
and came into his post-imperial world
dressed in spectacles and quiet clothing. …

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