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

The Patron Subjects

Who were the Wertheimers, the family that sat for a dozen of John Singer Sargent’s paintings?

A Giant of a Man

The legacy of Willie Mays and the Birmingham ballpark where he first made his mark

Adventures With Jean

Striking up a friendship with an older writer meant accepting the risk of getting hurt

Feels Like Coming Home
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The wonders of the coastal redwood

Free
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The knowledge of approaching death may allow some of us to experience time in new and liberating ways

Riding With Mr. Washington

How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction

Bards Behind Bars

Reading Sartre aloud inside a maximum-security prison

Just When You Thought It Wasn’t Safe …

How Wilbert Longfellow turned America into a nation of swimmers

Corona Chasers

You never forget your first solar eclipse

For Whom Do We Create?

The conundrum facing so many American artists today

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