Stifled Rage
Louisa May Alcott worked obsessively to become a successful writer, which meant that despite her gift for tart observation she often retreated into homilies and platitudes.
April 18, 2024 issue
Voice Lessons
There’s much to learn about independent media from the life and death of The Village Voice.
April 11, 2024
In the Path of Totality
Dispatches from the 2024 solar eclipse
April 12, 2024
The Next Mass Extinction?
As avian influenza spreads to the farthest reaches of the planet, scientists have expressed both urgency and fatalism.
April 14, 2024
The Volcano Lovers
For travelers in the Romantic period, Mount Vesuvius was an object of scientific curiosity, a political allegory, and a touchstone of the sublime.
April 18, 2024 issue
Free from the Archives
Alison Lurie: Liberated Girls“In Little Women there are four heroines, all different and all imperfect. In the course of the story they struggle to become good, but like most human beings, they never completely succeed. The implication is that it is possible to have serious faults—vanity, anger, impatience, timidity, and selfishness—and still deserve happiness.”
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