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The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn

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From behind a parapet on the tower of Litchfield Villa, the Italianate mansion that marks the western edge of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, I was barely able to make out —…

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Rule, Britannica

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They look like a segment of Borges’s Library of Babel: twenty-four volumes almost uniform in bulk (a thousand pages each, give or take a few), identically bound in a reddish-brown…

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The Queen and I

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The awful seduction of the British monarchy

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Disunified Front

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The chaotic, underfunded battle against the Islamic State

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Escaping Wars and Waves

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We Don’t Have Rights, But We Are Alive

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A gay soldier in Assad’s army

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Left of Bernie

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You say you want a revolution

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Search History

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A selection of queries submitted by telephone and in person to the New York Public Library’s Reference and Research Services between 1940 and 1989. Read More

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Everything That Rises

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I have come to perceive a cosmos filled with superintelligent beings — a virtually infinite number of them, whose minds have transcended their earthbound bodies and are independent of any…

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A Special Relationship

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The United States is teaming up with Al Qaeda, again

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