Jeremy Spoke in Class Today
On guns, MTV, Stephen King, and the nightmare from which we cannot awake
By Paul Crenshaw
Jeremy Spoke in Class Today
On guns, MTV, Stephen King, and the nightmare from which we cannot awake
By Paul Crenshaw
ARTICLES
The Art of Coping
In a time of anger, frustration, and anxiety, the humanities have much to teach us about how to deal with life
By Emily Katz Anhalt
The Justice Worker
Rebecca Sandefur’s mission is to provide help to tens of millions of Americans in solving their legal problems
By Lincoln Caplan
Who Killed the Mercy Man? 
An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song
By Eric McHenry
‘God-Knows-What-Kind-of-Classic’
Why shouldn’t America’s federal buildings speak to us in a language encompassing the old as well as the new?
By Witold Rybczynski
On (Middle-Class) Frugality
Does cutting costs mean robbing oneself of life’s small delights?
By Sierra Bellows
We Contain Multitudes
Why do so few of us exercise the many talents with which we are born?
By Ben Slote
A Splendor Wild and Terrifying
Lost in the woods, a writer confronts the duality of nature
By Mark Phillips
A Language of Many Places
Young Jews with views across the political spectrum are finding a home in Yiddish and klezmer
By Marilyn Marks
The Art of Coping
In a time of anger, frustration, and anxiety, the humanities have much to teach us about how to deal with life
By Emily Katz Anhalt
The Justice Worker
Rebecca Sandefur’s mission is to provide help to tens of millions of Americans in solving their legal problems
By Lincoln Caplan
Who Killed the Mercy Man?
An obscure murder keeps resurfacing in Black story and song
By Eric McHenry
‘God-Knows-What-Kind-of-Classic’
Why shouldn’t America’s federal buildings speak to us in a language encompassing the old as well as the new?
By Witold Rybczynski
On (Middle-Class) Frugality
Does cutting costs mean robbing oneself of life’s small delights?
By Sierra Bellows
We Contain Multitudes
Why do so few of us exercise the many talents with which we are born?
By Ben Slote
A Splendor Wild and Terrifying
Lost in the woods, a writer confronts the duality of nature
By Mark Phillips
A Language of Many Places
Young Jews with views across the political spectrum are finding a home in Yiddish and klezmer
By Marilyn Marks
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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?
By Jonathan Coleman
Puzzled
In the world of jigsaws, there can be a fine line between productivity and pleasure
By Susannah Pratt
poetry
anniversaries
fiction
commonplace book
book reviews
A Portrait of the Scholar
The life of Ireland’s towering literary figure became a work of art in its own right
By Michael O'Donnell
