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Two new books explore our growing scientific understanding of the moon as well as its powerful appeal to the imagination.
April 24, 2025 issue
In the Cut
The painter Walter Price keeps returning to a personal lexicon of images, as if hoping both to wear them out and make them new.
April 16, 2025
The Weight of Their Art
A new retrospective of the British artist and designer Tirzah Garwood—long overshadowed by her more famous husband—recovers the full scope of her life and work.
April 15, 2025
The Return
Syria will not be liberated as long as the better part of her, you, remains a hostage of this long-drawn-out captivity.
April 10, 2025
The Enigma of George Kennan
Frank Costigliola’s biography of George Kennan explores the contrast between the supreme confidence of his policy prescriptions and the perpetual turbulence of his inner life.
April 24, 2025 issue
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: History and National Stupidity“Sometimes, when I am particularly depressed, I ascribe our behavior to stupidity—the stupidity of our leadership, the stupidity of our culture.”
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