Coming Up Trumps

A conversation about words

Pungent Metaphors

The Examined Lie

A meditation on memory

Talk of the Town

At the Concord Lyceum, Emerson tried out his lectures on his neighbors

It Takes a Laboratory

Science is no longer the domain of solitary experimenters

Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention That Launched the Military-Industrial Complex By Michael Hiltzik

The Case of the Widening Gap

Matters of Taste

A work of literature and a bottle of wine require similar skills of their respective critics

The Wandering Years

Read the travel journals of literary icon Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died yesterday at 101

Darwin’s Voyage Continues

N Judah

Big Shoulders

How curiosity and cognition have driven our species forward

The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos By Leonard Mlodinow

Three Données
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Saigon Summer

A spy’s daughter remembers the haunting unreality of embassy life in South Vietnam before the fall

The Paper Chase

Years of tireless collecting led to one of the world’s great libraries

The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio By Andrea Mays

Strong but Quiet

The achievement of Andrea del Sarto

Fantastic Four

The enduring influence of a quartet of Oxford dons

The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings By Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski

One Chaser’s Quest

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