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Small-Town Noir

‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ and the enigma of David Lynch

Twin Peaks: The Return

a television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch


Speaking as a…

The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics

by Mark Lilla


The Perfectionist

‘Toscanini: Musician of Conscience’ by Harvey Sachs

Toscanini: Musician of Conscience

by Harvey Sachs


The Nature of Catastrophe

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone

by Richard Lloyd Parry

The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World

by Michael Ignatieff


High-Wire Act

Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898–1940

by Jed Perl


A Very American Endeavor

Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

by Suzy Hansen


Fatal Genes

In genetic testing, the line between useful and damaging knowledge is hard to draw.

Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family’s Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them

by Gina Kolata


What Are We Doing Here?

Why teach the humanities? Why study them?

Homage to Catalonia?

The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain

by Raphael Minder


Tender Is the Fall

Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

by David S. Brown


The Resistance So Far

How are the Democrats doing as an opposition party?

All That Shite

Smile

by Roddy Doyle


How Mary Anne Became George

The Transferred Life of George Eliot: The Biography of a Novelist

by Philip Davis


An Icy Conquest

“We are starved!” cried the sixty skeletal members of the English colony of Jamestown as provisions arrived in 1610.

A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America

by Sam White


Black Lives Matter

Kara Walker turns against whiteness what white people invented. Those funny faces aren’t so funny anymore.

Kara Walker: Sikkema Jenkins and Co. is Compelled to present The most Astounding and Important Painting show of the fall Art Show viewing season!

an exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins and Co., New York City, September 7–October 14, 2017

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