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Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
The bard of Newark's department stores
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I am a camera
Seeing the world with Thomas Cook
The ideal tree, and how to count it
The problem of mistranslation
Specialists in the noncontroversial
The astute eye of Guy Davenport
Music's new lexicon
Dante's English muse
A little too familiar
Broadway's avant-garde old hat
Twelve March novels
Hemingway's letters
Seamus Heaney
A Rutgers Fitzgerald
Redefining "Oxford"
Erica Jong's free-form history
How the West was lost
Talking to Studs Terkel
The year in poetry
Conservation and paternalism in Madagascar
Abbie Hoffman and the infant revolution
Glimmers of understanding
Adventures in solipsism
The teaching of history
Five big man-made obstacles
Found out in London
The bureau of backbiting and recrimination
Lessons from the hive
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