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Herman Wouk Is Still Alive

New fiction from Stephen King

How Heavy Metal Is Keeping Us Sane

Dark and disturbing, the music is honest about human nature.

The Great Los Angeles Novel

HBO’s Mildred Pierce is based on James M. Cain’s book that has to go down as one of the great failures of American fiction.

Philip Larkin, the Impossible Man

How the most exasperating of poets met his match

The Legacy of Malcolm X

Why his vision lives on in Barack Obama

The Father, The Sun, and the Holy Spirit

Pope Benedict XVI's plans for saving the natural world

The Other Detroit

The black elite’s most majestic enclave tries to fight off blight.

Guitar Hero Goes to the Opera

How the video game's godfather plans to democratize the art form

Our Zombies, Ourselves

Why we can’t get undead off our brains

Sympathy for the Tiger Moms

The national convulsion over Amy Chua’s parenting has lead people to hate or fear mothers like me. They should feel sorry for us instead.

Leave Those Kids Alone

Childhood isn't a springboard to adulthood, but a well of experience.

The Ivy Delusion

The real reason the good mothers are so rattled by Amy Chua

The Architect of the City

Benjamin Schwarz on how Louis Sullivan—arguable inventor of the skyscraper and creator of some of America's greatest buildings—is finally getting his due.

A Remembrance of Things

A memoir uses an exquisite collection of figurines to evoke one family's devastating history.

From Berlin to bin Laden

A history of the Baghdad Express illuminates the resilience of politicized Islam.

Cover to Cover

Academe on the latrine; the nuances of O'Nan; and more

Daydream Believer

How Justin Bieber found teenybop perfection

Shade of Home

Reckoning with the ghosts of Mum and Pup

Rudyard Kipling Wrote Here

Inside the Vermont home where Kipling created his classic tales

The Hazards of Duke

A now infamous PowerPoint presentation exposes a lot about men, women, sex, and alcohol—and about how universities are letting their female students down.

Hard Core

The new world of porn is revealing eternal truths about men and women.

The Wild World of Sports

In ESPN’s SportsCenter, the fan still finds solace—even order—in chaos.

Object of Desire

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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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What Does It Take to Make Real Craft Gin?

Tour the Green Hat Gin distillery

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Letter From the Editor

The June 2013 issue

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What Straights Can Learn From Same-Sex Couples

New insight from decades of research

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The End of the Mall Rat

A tribute to that pillar of teen culture

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