A Clean, Well-Ordered Place

An ode to the grocery store

Lionized

The life and death of a celebrity puma—and what it really means to be wild  

This Is Not the Zombie Apocalypse

Is a new form of methamphetamine really to blame for a host of urban problems?

Queen of the Castle

Looking for Mama Lou, the legendary singer whose work helped inspire American ragtime

The Interdisciplinarian
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Evelyn Fox Keller has spent a lifetime in different scientific fields, while managing to shatter a glass ceiling or two

A Room for the Ages

Oglethorpe University’s time capsule was meant to last thousands of years, but will it?

Dancing With Deneuve

A young writer observed a failure in the making while watching François Truffaut in action

Freud Airlines

Now boarding, all passengers, Flight 1900 to Vienna

False Prophets

A recent film about a Black megachurch is often hilarious, but its flaws reside in the story it doesn’t tell

Putting the Story Back in History

Hayden White on truth, facts, and the allure of a well-told tale

A Newer Species of Trouble

When the lines between natural and technological disasters become blurred— and ultimately erased

A Night at the Bougainville Roxy
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America’s post-Depression enthusiasm for movies extended to its theaters of war

Any Way You Can
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This is what can happen when you’re abandoned in a war zone

Adding Wimsey to My Life
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How I fell in love with a fictional detective

Save the Meramec
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On law, literature, and the Indiana bat

Night Shade

After my husband died, why did he continue to haunt my dreams?  

Weekend Warriors

How are competitive kids’ sports changing America?

Thinking in the Margins

What Oliver Sacks jotted down in the books he read

Afloat Between Worlds

What is the meaning of the mystical visions that a sailor experiences at sea?

Why Lee Wiley? 
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The singer you need to hear now

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