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The Mind-Brain Problem

Psychologist Jerome Kagan has always known that biology is only a partial solution

An Argument for Mind By Jerome Kagan

Worked Well with Others

Discovering the structure of DNA was not Francis Crick’s only important collaboration

Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code By Matt Ridley

Half-Brother to the World

The United States has been more like other nations than we like to think

A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History By Thomas Bender

African Renaissance?

Finding hope on a continent where many people see only despair

New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance By Charlayne Hunter-Gault

In Search of a Great Modernist

Do Proust’s final days illuminate his novel?

Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris By Richard Davenport-Hines

Tiny Tomes

Literature in miniature has a 500-year history, but what’s the appeal of a volume too small to read?

Response to Our Spring Issue

Summer

Rio: Feckless and Reckless

The Case for Love

Did the friendship of an early Supreme Court justice and the wife of a colleague ever cross the line of propriety?

Dinners at Six

Findings: A Bogey Tale

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