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

Get Me Rewrite!

The relationship between a renowned author and a consummate editor can sometimes make for high drama

Knowledge Before the Fall

Sometimes you simply can’t prepare for a seemingly inevitable outcome

George’s Angels

Remembering my time with Balanchine’s dancers

The Lotus Position

What does one of television’s biggest hits have to say about the nature of a certain kind of American tourism?

Rules of Reciprocity

True empathy might be possible only if we can first get out of our own way

Portals to Eden

The gates on college campuses provide beauty and security, but they can also take on symbolic importance in times of campus tumult

Here We Are Again
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Helen Benedict’s novels about the Iraq war continue to resonate today

The Paper Chase
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A quiet crisis threatens millions of historical documents in some of the nation’s premier archives

Lisbon, 1989
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How longing, melancholy, nostalgia, and song came together on one memorable night

It’s All in Your Head
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What a remarkable thing it is to remember what you read

Save the Meramec

On law, literature, and the Indiana bat

Adding Wimsey to My Life

How I fell in love with a fictional detective

Any Way You Can

This is what can happen when you’re abandoned in a war zone

A Newer Species of Trouble

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

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