The Freedom in Confinement

Summer 2020

The Midwest

Alpharetta

“Naturally, we feared that some form of retribution would be waiting for us, but to our relief we didn’t see Daddy Perry again until suppertime.”

What Time Is It?

A history of the world in one year

Mysterious Inheritance

A new biography of the founder of population genetics

A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane by Samanth Subramanian

Viral Days

Responses to Our Spring 2020 Issue

Words Preserved Against a Day of Fear

Remembering Joseph Brodsky

Western Sahara: A Fragile Peace

As an unofficial state, Western Sahara doesn’t really exist—and being tiny and well behaved, it is easy to ignore.

Looking Back From the End of the World

What Thoreau can teach us about living life during—and after—the pandemic

The Patriot Slave

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America

Guardian of the Glaciers

As climate change threatens the future of the Himalayas, might the mountains’ salvation lie in endowing them with legal rights?

Adrift in Sunlit Night

When searching St. Petersburg for the shadows of Dostoyevsky, Gogol, and Pushkin, the best strategy may simply be to get lost

How We Came Together

America purchased its sense of itself at a high price

Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhoodby Colin Woodard

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Recalling a past of sound and silence, and secrets that could never be told

A Lifelong Habit of Being

Exploring a fundamentally ambiguous attribute

Character: The History of a Cultural Obsessionby Marjorie Garber

Stitches in Time

A meditation on needlepoint and mortality

Our Feathered Friends

They aren’t the intellectual lightweights we take them for

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Thinkby Jennifer Ackerman

The People’s Gallery

A collection that is the brightest light in a city full of them

The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museumby James Gardner

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