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O'Neal L. Abel / Courtesy of W. W. ... Beyond the Myth of Malcolm X
Understanding the humanity, and the communities, that shaped the brilliant, troubled, selfish, generous, sincere radical
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Erik Carter How to Get Rich By Losing Lots of Money
Adam Neumann is out of his WeWork job, but entrepreneurs will surely imitate him.
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Illustration by Katie Martin; images from Kean Collection ... Reading Thomas Jefferson’s Bible
The president preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly.
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Matt Huynh Why We’re Afraid of Bats
On how we know—and how we learn—what to fear
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Illustration by Paul Spella; image from PA Images ... In Search of the First Female Sports Superstar
The remarkable career of the Victorian athletic phenom Charlotte Dod—and the legacy that wasn’t
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Cassi Namoda Marilynne Robinson’s Prodigal Son
Her new novel, Jack, explores the loneliest character in her Gilead series and the legacy of race.
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Tim Enthoven A New Theory of Western Civilization
Could a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago explain what made the industrialized world so powerful—and so peculiar?
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Yael Malka Claudia Rankine’s Quest for Racial Dialogue
Is her focus on the personal out of step with the racial politics of our moment?
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Bettmann / Getty What to Do About William Faulkner
A white man of the Jim Crow South, he couldn’t escape the burden of race, yet derived creative force from it.
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Simone Noronha Elena Ferrante’s Master Class on Deceit
Her latest novel frames lying as a creative act.
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Johnalynn Holland The Best American Novelist Whose Name You May Not Know
When her first novels were published, in the mid-1970s, Gayl Jones’s talent was hailed by writers from James Baldwin to John Updike. Then she disappeared.
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Illustration by Celina Pereira; BStU; Ulrich Hässler / ... A KGB Man to the End
The origins of Putin’s worldview—and the rise of Russia’s new ruling class
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Marta Monteiro The Dark Soul of the Sunshine State
Why Florida is the way it is
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Illustration by Oliver Munday; Eamonn McCabe / Popperfoto ... Seamus Heaney’s Journey Into Darkness
In the deepest reaches of history, the poet found a voice for the troubled present.
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Rodrigo Corral The Man Who Sacked Rome
Alaric the Goth wanted to be part of the empire. Instead he helped bring it down.
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Sacrée Frangine Why Birds Do What They Do
The more humans understand about their behavior, the more inaccessible their world seems.
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Ernesto Artillo A Novelist’s Ambition to Define America
Robert Stone set out to capture the national condition in fiction, a goal that’s more relevant than ever.
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Späth / ullstein bild / Getty What Alexander Calder Understood About Joy
America’s greatest sculptor gave objects a playful life of their own.
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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith The People Who Profited Off the Trail of Tears
The deportation of Native Americans westward in the 1830s was fueled by busy bankers and unchecked avarice.
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Rodrigo Corral Capitalism’s Favorite Drug
The dark history of how coffee took over the world
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