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History
How Humans Learned to Count, Thus Opening the World
Michael Brooks on the Surprising Sophistication of “Finger-Counting”
By
Michael Brooks
| January 18, 2022
The Man Who Quietly Built a Massive Archive of Artists’ Deaths
A Report from the Archives of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
By
Jim Moske
| January 18, 2022
Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”
"In putting race and aesthetics in conversation with one another, Locke forever changed our understanding of both.”
By
Jeffrey C. Stewart
| January 18, 2022
Émile Zola was a bad art friend.
By
Walker Caplan
| January 14, 2022
Exit Wounds: On the Roots of Violence—and Its Complicated Aftermath
"Fear nests within other fears, is encircled by it."
By
Jonathan Gleason
| January 14, 2022
James Joyce was only 9 years old when he published his first poem.
By
Walker Caplan
| January 13, 2022
Best Reviewed
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Leigh Stein on Reading Anne Frank During Quarantine
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Leigh Stein
| January 13, 2022
Lewis R. Gordon on the Development of Black Consciousness
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Lewis R. Gordon
| January 13, 2022
We Have Ways of Making You Talk
on the Allied Forces Training Methods
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We Have Ways of Making You Talk
| January 13, 2022
How Artists Navigate the Interplay of Authority and Freedom
Jed Perl on the Creative Life
By
Jed Perl
| January 12, 2022
On the Hidden Fight Inside the Federal Reserve That Reshaped American Economic Life
Christopher Leonard on the 2010 Policy That Widened the Gulf Between Rich and Poor
By
Christopher Leonard
| January 12, 2022
How Our Social Emotions Laid the Foundation for Functioning Societies
Leonard Mlodinow Considers the Purpose of Shame, Admiration, Jealousy and More
By
Leonard Mlodinow
| January 12, 2022
Life and Death Among the Vanished in the Himalayas’ Parvati Valley
Harley Rustad on the Mystery of the Disappeared
By
Harley Rustad
| January 11, 2022
How Stolen Cultural Artifacts Made Their Way to a Major Museum
Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm on Art and Crime
By
Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm
| January 11, 2022
A Glimpse Inside the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries
From Switzerland, Germany, Italy, and Beyond
By
Georg Ruppelt
| January 10, 2022
Learning From
Almanac of the Dead
, a Hallmark of Indigenous Literature
Lou Cornum on Leslie Marmon Silko's Magnum Opus
By
Lou Cornum
| January 10, 2022
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Welcome to The Wiregrass, Where Corruption Is Rampant, Contradictions Abound, and Cynicism Reigns Supreme
October 1, 2026
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Matt Kessler
Two Generations, One Shared Experience: On Incarceration, Redemption, and Family Love
October 1, 2026
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Dr. Tonesa Welch and H. Corey Mills
Dan Warner on A.I., Life as Data, and Depicting Emerging Technologies in Fiction
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Dan Warner
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"The plot here like the plots in the previous three Mandel novels I've read is…"