A Window on a Shrinking World

Swinging Into the Future
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Kansas City of the 1930s witnessed a style of American music inspired by the wonders of the industrial age

Unresolved

Fatal Courage

How Emerson helped me see, as if for the first time

Water/Music

An excerpt

New Orleans: Vanishing Graves

Holt Cemetery has been filled to capacity many times over; each gravesite has been used for dozens of burials

Power to the People

Looking back on a decade of revolutionary change

The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights by Thomas C. Holt

Winter 2021

Long-Distance Punishment

Could a landmark work of conceptual art be an emblem for the Covid era?

Satirist to the Galaxy

The war behind a writer’s words

Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941–1945 edited by Edith Vonnegut

White, Whiteness, Whitewash

The masks we wear in America

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