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Edward Mendelson

The Secret Auden

The poet had a secret life that his closest friends knew little or nothing about

March 20, 2014 issue

Quiver Tree Forest, Namibia; photograph by Beth Moon from her book Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time (2014). A collection of her color photographs, Ancient Skies, Ancient Trees, has just been published by Abbeville.

Thomas Pakenham

What the Trees Say

Two outstanding new books on trees

December 8, 2016 issue

Louise Glück, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2012

Nick Laird

The Triumph of the Survivor

March 21, 2013 issue

Tim Flannery

They’re Taking Over!

Lisa-ann Gershwin’s ‘Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean’

September 26, 2013 issue

Iris Murdoch

Taking the Plunge

March 4, 1993 issue

Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Richard Howard

Sartre on the Nobel Prize

December 17, 1964 issue

Oliver Sacks

The Mental Life of Plants and Worms

Do jellyfish have minds?

April 24, 2014 issue

People protesting outside Trump Tower following Donald Trump's election victory, New York City, November 9, 2016

Masha Gessen

Autocracy: Rules for Survival

Trump is anything but a regular politician and this has been anything but a regular election. It might be worth considering the rules I’ve learned for surviving in an autocracy and salvaging your sanity and self-respect.

November 10, 2016

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