A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

After the Fallout
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On jellyfish babies, my father’s pain, and the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific

Mr. Olympia
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When the ancient Greeks looked at human muscle, they saw something different than we do

In the Endless Arctic Light

A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

The Wonder of It All
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In search of awe

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Words Matter
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An opera can succeed only if libretto and score are in concert

Vital Signs
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What happened when my husband became a paramedic

Why I Love You

Street Scenes

The Word Made Flesh

What writers do and what boxers do is more alike than you might imagine

Going Home, Going Away

At a 50th high school reunion, a well-known traveler recalls his pride in the hometown he was so eager to leave behind

Spaced Out in the City

Giving Absurdity Its Due

In the Panthéon, Albert Camus joins a kindred soul

Go-o-o-o, Lemmings!

Stomp those Stormy Petrels!

Brush Up Your Berlin

And beware of kiss-me-I’m-poetical junk

Sesquicentennial Excess

Must we erase evidence of later commemorations at Civil War sites?

Who Was Hall?

And just what was his connection to hedgehogs?

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