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A new century calls for new stories grounded in the present, leaving behind the painful history of slavery and its consequences

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Revisiting the gritty Roman neighborhood of his youth, a writer discovers a world of his own invention

The Grasshopper and His Space Odyssey

A scientist remembers the celebrated science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke

Hope

Response to Our Spring Issue

Grand Horse Opera

The best Westerns celebrate our history and criticize the ugly stereotypes of the genre

Confluences of Sound and Sense

Kay Ryan’s idiosyncratic approach to the commonplace

Happy with Crocodiles

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers

Over There

A pugnacious public intellectual looks to Europe for his ideal

Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century By Tony Judt

The End of the Black American Narrative

A new century calls for new stories grounded in the present, leaving behind the painful history of slavery and its consequences

Intimacy

Revisiting the gritty Roman neighborhood of his youth, a writer discovers a world of his own invention

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