Monotreme Dreams
Australia’s egg-laying monotremes and pouch-carrying marsupials may seem to be outliers, but they’re as well suited to their environment as any other mammal.
February 23, 2023 issue
Peddling Darkness
True crime stories, like Sarah Weinman’s Scoundrel, make for suspenseful reading. But do they exploit the criminal, and deepen a thirst for punishment?
March 9, 2023 issue
‘Hit the Line Hard’
During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.
February 12, 2023
Commanders and Courtiers
The Howe family achieved an influential position of power in late-eighteenth-century Britain, propelled by the shrewd social intelligence of the Howe women.
February 23, 2023 issue
Performance as Immolation
The conductor Carlos Kleiber’s aesthetic was founded on the interplay between voluptuous refinement and an impulse to violence.
February 23, 2023 issue
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