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Biography

A Sigh and a Salute

An appreciation of Si Lewen and his Parade

Trick of the Russian Soul

From Secondhand Time, an oral history of post-Soviet Russia compiled by Svetlana Alexievich and published last month by Random House. Alexievich is the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in…

Front Runner

by Elisabeth Zerofsky,

Marine Le Pen’s campaign to make France great again

The Separating Sickness

by Rebecca Solnit,

Five hundred family members of leprosy patients sue Japan; Rebecca Solnit explores how leprosy teaches empathy

Something Big

by Geoff Dyer,

The legend of the Watts Towers

Mad Magazines

by Jonathan Guyer,

Underground comics come to Egypt

New Books

by Christine Smallwood,

Julia Ward Howe published her first book of poetry on December 23, 1853, when she was thirty-four years old. It must have made a rather nice Christmas present for her…

The Odd Couple

by Jean Stein,

From West of Eden: An American Place, an oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles by Jean Stein, published this month by Random House. Stein is the author of Edie:…

Left of Bernie

by Garret Keizer,

You say you want a revolution

Revenge Tragedy

by Austin Reed,

From The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict, a memoir by Austin Reed, published this month by Random House. Likely completed in 1858, the manuscript was discovered at…

The Charmer

by Fredrik deBoer,

Louis Farrakhan and the Black Lives Matter protests