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Henry David Thoreau as prophet, naturalist, and stealth comedian
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The human network behind Snowden's leak, the scandal of mental health in West Africa, Islam's forgotten reformation, and more...
The protagonist and narrator of E. L. Doctorow’s twelfth novel, Andrew’s Brain (Random House, $26), is a clumsy cognitive scientist who relates the story of his life from an undisclosed location…
An invitation to resistance
Distance measured in time
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