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Cover Story

Jeremy Spoke in Class Today

On guns, MTV, Stephen King, and the nightmare from which we cannot awake

Cover Story

Jeremy Spoke in Class Today

On guns, MTV, Stephen King, and the nightmare from which we cannot awake

ARTICLES

The Justice Worker

Rebecca Sandefur’s mission is to provide help to tens of millions of Americans in solving their legal problems

The Art of Coping
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In a time of anger, frustration, and anxiety, the humanities have much to teach us about how to deal with life

Who Killed the Mercy Man?
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An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song

‘God-Knows-What-Kind-of-Classic’
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Why shouldn’t America’s federal buildings speak to us in a language encompassing the old as well as the new?

On (Middle-Class) Frugality
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Does cutting costs mean robbing oneself of life’s small delights?

We Contain Multitudes
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Why do so few of us exercise the many talents with which we are born?

A Splendor Wild and Terrifying
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Lost in the woods, a writer confronts the duality of nature

A Language of Many Places
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Young Jews with views across the political spectrum are finding a home in Yiddish and klezmer

The Justice Worker

Rebecca Sandefur’s mission is to provide help to tens of millions of Americans in solving their legal problems

The Art of Coping
loading

In a time of anger, frustration, and anxiety, the humanities have much to teach us about how to deal with life

Who Killed the Mercy Man?
loading

An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song

‘God-Knows-What-Kind-of-Classic’
loading

Why shouldn’t America’s federal buildings speak to us in a language encompassing the old as well as the new?

On (Middle-Class) Frugality
loading

Does cutting costs mean robbing oneself of life’s small delights?

We Contain Multitudes
loading

Why do so few of us exercise the many talents with which we are born?

A Splendor Wild and Terrifying
loading

Lost in the woods, a writer confronts the duality of nature

A Language of Many Places
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Young Jews with views across the political spectrum are finding a home in Yiddish and klezmer

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

Hiding in Plain Sight

What happens when a progressive city is forced to reckon with its connections to an unjust past?

A Fight With Cudgels
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Meditations on death, Goya, and the immutability of art

When True Crime Became All Too Real
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How my family survived a harrowing home invasion

What’s Not to Like?
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On similes, good and bad

Puzzled
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In the world of jigsaws, there can be a fine line between productivity and pleasure

book reviews

A Portrait of the Scholar

The life of Ireland’s towering literary figure became a work of art in its own right

The Rascal of Pont-Aven

Reassessing a renowned painter’s troubling life

Sticking With It

A sobering chronicle of our toxic times

Unbuilding the Mystery

What might Indigenous spiritual practices have in common?

A Blast of a Time

The scientific underpinnings of Armageddon

Farmed Out

The uncertain future of the nation’s heartland

Streams of Consciousness

A writer’s intrepid exploration of troubled waters