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Some Different Ways of Looking at Selma

Darryl Pinckney

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2016: The Republicans Write

Michael Tomasky

Lure of the Caliphate

Malise Ruthven

The New Cuba?

Enrique Krauze

How Bob Hope Captured America

Frank Rich

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The Biology of Being Good to Others

Altruism may seem a good thing—unless you happen to be an evolutionary biologist. Then it may seem a mixture of a mystery and a curse. The reason isn’t hard to see. How could a ruthless process like Darwinian natural selection give rise to altruistic organisms, human or nonhuman, that act in ways that are costly to themselves and helpful to others?

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The New Cuba?

Mark Frank’s ‘Cuban Revelations: Behind the Scenes in Havana’

My Fellow Prisoners

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Sometimes, what takes place in prison seems like a version of ordinary life beyond the prison gates, just taken to a grotesque extreme

How Bob Hope Captured America

‘Hope: Entertainer of the Century’ by Richard Zoglin

There’s No Way Out of It!

Jerome Groopman

The natural world of unopposed pathogens is full of danger

Our Date with Miranda

The multitalented, uncategorizable Miranda July

France on Fire

It is hard to escape the feeling that a major battle is beginning

In Balanchine’s Beautiful Forest

Jennifer Homans

For Balanchine, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was deeply personal; in his mind, life and art were never far apart

The Rocky Road to Taking It Easy

The difficult choices in dealing with Social Security

The Super Bowl: The Horror & the Glory

Football fans ignore the fact that we are watching men kill themselves

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Defying the Assassin’s Veto

Timothy Garton Ash

Where the heckler’s veto says merely “I will shout you down,” the assassin’s version is “dare to express that and we will kill you.”

Justice Deferred Is Justice Denied

For the past decade or more, the punishment and deterrence of corporate crime has effectively been reduced

Who Is the Pope?

The differences between Francis and his predecessors are wide, deep, and momentous for the church

The Reporter Resists His Government

James Risen’s ‘Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War’

Some Different Ways of Looking at Selma

Darryl Pinckney

‘Selma’ reminds us that the book is still the only medium in which you can make a complicated argument

The Republicans: Divided & Scary

A party riven between pragmatists and purists

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On Edgar Allan Poe

Marilynne Robinson

A writer who both amazed and antagonized his contemporaries

‘A Beautiful, Mournful Novel’

Cathleen Schine

Atticus Lish’s ‘Preparation for the Next Life’

Van Gogh: The Courage & the Cunning

Michael Kimmelman

“Real artists paint things not as they are, in a dry analytical way, but as they feel them”

How ISIS Rules

Its ability to maintain power depends overwhelmingly on outright repression

Alice Munro’s Magic

Her characters often have to decide what “home” means, and what to do with it when you have left it

The NY Police vs. the Mayor

Michael Greenberg

Just how far de Blasio and Bratton will be able to push police reform is an open question

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In Ferguson

Darryl Pinckney

For so many, Michael Brown’s death was the last straw

A Better Way Out

Atul Gawande’s ‘Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End’

Who Is Not Guilty of This Vice?

Is it jealousy that makes the world go round?

Must Counterterrorism Cancel Democracy?

Secrecy has costs—not just to human rights but to democracy itself

The Floral Kingdom in the Bronx

Botanical gardens, like film stars, have survived by reinventing themselves.

A Great Master at the Met

Anthony Grafton

Pieter Coecke van Aelst, a Renaissance man of a new kind

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The Dark & Light of Francisco Goya

An artist whose imagination was ripe for horror

You Can’t Catch Picasso

Wherever he turned, he brought deep insights and dazzling aplomb

How He and His Cronies Stole Russia

Karen Dawisha’s ‘Putin’s Kleptocracy’

Italy’s Great, Mysterious Storyteller

The epic novels of Elena Ferrante

The Hideous Unknown of H.P. Lovecraft

From generation to generation the cult of Lovecraft grows

Ebola in Liberia: An Epidemic of Rumors

Emergency measures rapidly contained other outbreaks. What went wrong this time?

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Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers

Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers

Edward Mendelson

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars

The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars

Jean Merrill

Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston

Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston

edited and with an introduction by Peter Benson Miller

A Legacy

A Legacy

Sybille Bedford

Silvina Ocampo

Silvina Ocampo

Silvina Ocampo

Thus Were Their Faces

Thus Were Their Faces

Silvina Ocampo

The Door

The Door

Magda Szabó

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Artemis Cooper