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Riddle

Homecoming

Stroking Won't Boost Economy

Mother Earth

Hope Hangover

The Empty Arena

If you build it, they might not come.

How Historical Fiction Went Highbrow

Paperback writers pass the torch to Joyce Carol Oates and Gore Vidal

Hitler's Co-Conspirators

New histories reveal that the Nazi Regime deliberately insinuated knowledge of the Final Solution, devilishly making Germans complicit in the crime and binding them, with guilt and dread, to their leaders.

The Passion of Alec Baldwin

The blustering actor’s memoir of divorce is really a love letter to his daughter.

The Captive Mind

Edward Upward was one of the only writers of the ’30s to deal with Britain’s elephant in the room—fascism—but his career was forever warped by his communism.

The Sorcery of Alan Moore

How pop culture fell under a comic-book writer’s strange spell

Winter’s Tale

Celebration

Under the Maypole

Management

Mecycling

Time

What I Got Yesterday (I Wish)

Postmodern Bikini Bottom

James Parker deconstructs the tormented irony and contagious optimism of a SpongeBob episode.

Alan Moore: From Hell

James Parker shares a climactic scene from the film adaptation of Alan Moore's Jack the Ripper story, From Hell

Divorce, American Style

Alec Baldwin's self-serving memoir will strike a chord with fathers struggling against a campaign of alienation

Million Dollar Basketball Babies

Should the sport’s top prospects go to college? Should they even go to high school?

Theirs Truly: The Lowell-Bishop Letters

The letters between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop are one of the great poetic correspondences of all time—and became the real essence of their relationship

The Revenge of Karl Marx

What the author of Das Kapital reveals about the current economic crisis

Cover to Cover

Playboy as parable; post-secular Sundays; genetic aesthetics; lax Britannica; and more

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Miami: The Next Big Start-Up City?

How the city became a center for innovation

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A Brief History of Romantic Comedies

From The Atlantic's Chris Orr

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Life in 'the New Arctic'

A moving portrait of a fading landscape

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The Rise of New York City

A fascinating look at Manhattan in the 1940s

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What Is Methane Hydrate?

"Flaming ice" is a vast natural energy source

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NASA's Time-Lapse of the Sun

Now with epic dubstep music

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Shaken Not Tuned: Cocktail Experiments

Can a tuning fork improve a cocktail?

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Is He Cheating? A 1950s Guide

'That little blonde secretary from the office?’

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New Yorkers: Vintage Vacuum-Tube Amps

Risking electric shock to restore old amplifiers

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The DIY Piano-Bicycle

Everybody needs a hobby

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