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20th century

Our Town

by Ariel Sabar,

How Roger Barker made Oskaloosa, Kansas, his laboratory

Making a Scene

by Christine Smallwood,

Willa Cather’s correspondence

Life During Wartime

by Janine di Giovanni,

Remembering the siege of Sarajevo

Afterword

by John le Carré,

I wrote The Spy Who Came in from the Cold at the age of thirty under intense, unshared, personal stress, and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the…

Little Bang Theory

by Pierre Schaeffer,Translated by John Dack,

From In Search of a Concrete Music, by composer Pierre Schaeffer (1910–95), published last year for the first time in English by University of California Press. Published in French in…

Parenthood Revisited

by Claude Lévi-Strauss,Translated by Jane Marie Todd,

By Claude Lévi-Strauss, from a 1986 lecture at the Ishizaka Foundation in Tokyo, included in Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World, published last month by Harvard University Press.…

Visible Cities

by Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin,

From Italo Calvino: Letters 1941–1985, out this month from Princeton University Press. Franco Maria Ricci, a publisher, commissioned Calvino to prepare a text for a volume containing reproductions of the…