In League

A President Speaks Out on Immigration

In an address to new citizens, Woodrow Wilson spoke of the American dream

The Boy in the Bubble

Living With Voices

A new way to deal with disturbing voices offers hope for those with other forms of psychosis

Twilight of an Author

Lessons from The History Boys

The Mind Paused / Not at All

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Essays From the Edge

The Jazz Age novelist’s chronicle of his mental collapse, much derided by his critics, anticipated the rise of autobiographical writing in America

Crazy Enough to Care

Peer counseling, long used in the humane treatment of the mentally ill, is getting new attention as a cost saver because of the Affordable Care Act

Sonic Geographer

The composer whose music bears witness to a planet in peril

A Writer by Nature

An excerpt from World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The Founder and the Epidemic

Dr. Benjamin Rush, who signed the Declaration of Independence, could not save Philadelphia from yellow fever

Responses to Our Spring 2020 Issue

Coronavirus World

Numbers, meaning, and truth

Feminism’s First Think Tank

The very different women of the Radcliffe Institute’s inaugural class

The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960sMaggie Doherty

Farm to Fable

How a now-forgotten writer changed American agriculture

The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolutionby Stephen Heyman

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The Bucket

Lenin

Revolutionary Chaos

The first-ever English translation of a 20th-century Russian masterpiece

Book

Why Book Reviewing Isn’t Going Anywhere

A researcher explores the future of a changing practice

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