Dignity and the Individual

Abandon your grievances and strive for the heroic

Amy Genser

Paper Patterns

Of Faith and Tragedy

A scholar of early Christianity on how her work informed her life

Why Religion? by Elaine Pagels

The Guru of Athens

Can age-old philosophy lead the way to happiness?

Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall

Jane Swavely

Neon Forests

An Ostrich On Election Day

Eight Things to Distract You During the Midterms

Christina A. West

Enter the Green Screen

Anne Hayden Stevens

Woman Meets Nature

The 12 Best British Detective Shows

Gray sweaters and cunning sleuths abound

“It Was I”

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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