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Legends of the Lost

The discreet charm of movies we cannot see

From Lynching in America, a report published in February by the Equal Justice Initiative, an organization based in Montgomery, Alabama, that litigates on behalf of indigent and marginalized defendants.

Copy Cats

by Matthew C. Ehrlich,

From “Taking Animal News Seriously: Cat Tales in the New York Times,” a study by Matthew C. Ehrlich, a professor of journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, published…

Displaced in the D.R.

by Rachel Nolan,

A country strips 210,000 of citizenship

The Day of the Knotweed

by Sam Knight,

Battling Britain’s most destructive invasive plant

The Quietest Place in the Universe

by Kent Meyers,

Digging for dark matter in an abandoned mine

The Joke

by Justin Smith,

By Justin E. H. Smith, from “The Fundamentals of Gelastics,” a work in progress. Smith’s latest book, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference (Princeton), will be published in June. In…

Going It Alone

by Fenton Johnson,

The dignity and challenge of solitude

Saving the Whale, Again

by Andrew Cockburn,

The catastrophic incompetence of Citigroup

Oath of the Elbe

by Walter Kempowski,

From Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich, edited by Walter Kempowski, out this month from W. W. Norton. On April 25, 1945, Soviet…

Church Going

by Garry Wills,

From The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis, by Garry Wills, out this month from Viking. Wills holds the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair at Emory and is…

History

Legends of the Lost

Family Tradition

Copy Cats

Displaced in the D.R.

The Day of the Knotweed

The Quietest Place in the Universe

The Joke

Going It Alone

Saving the Whale, Again

Oath of the Elbe

Church Going

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Legends of the Lost

Family Tradition

Copy Cats

Displaced in the D.R.

The Day of the Knotweed

The Quietest Place in the Universe

The Joke

Going It Alone

Saving the Whale, Again

Oath of the Elbe

Church Going

March 2015

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