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Michael Douglas Explains It All

Jessa Crispin on what the actor’s roles tell us about the crisis of masculinity

Once in a Lifetime

Jonathan Gould on how Talking Heads transformed rock music

Family Values

Augustine Sedgewick on the history of paternity and patriarchy

Lingua Obscura

Laura Spinney on the spread of Proto-Indo-European

The Shipping News

Ian Kumekawa tells the story of the global economy in one barge

Coming Home

Craig Thompson digs up memories of farm labor and the history of ginseng

Muscle Memory

Michael Joseph Gross on the importance of strength, past and present

The Most Famous Unknown Artist

David Sheff puts Yoko Ono in the spotlight

The Root Cause

Padraic X. Scanlan tells the real history of the Irish Potato Famine

Something New in the West

Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front

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