
A Taste for the Difficult
In his performing, his critical writing, and his conversation, the prodigious Charles Rosen was driven by ceaseless curiosity and the urge to share his knowledge.
February 11, 2021 issue
‘The Tools We Have’: A Photo History of African Women
A new book offers a striking visual history of African women from 1870 to 1970.
January 23, 2021
Medicine Is Made for Men
In medical research, drug regulation, and product design, the male body is too often considered as the default—which can have dangerous, even fatal, consequences for women.
February 11, 2021 issue
Life’s Merry-Go-Round
From Rilke to Rodgers and Hammerstein, the carousel has embodied the sadness of lost innocence. And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges—even on Donald Trump.
January 25, 2021
Chronicle of a Death Ignored
Becky Cooper’s We Keep the Dead Close is as much a study of corrosive institutional patriarchy as it is an investigation into an unsolved 1969 murder at Harvard.
February 11, 2021 issue
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