In her memoir “Seeing Ghosts,” the author recounts her mother’s death and her immigrant family’s numerous migrations, separations and losses, evoking the way grief entails…
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Stories of Our Perverse Present and Our Haunted Futures
“After the Sun,” a collection by the Danish writer Jonas Eika, stretches past the limits of the ordinary.“After the Sun,” a collection by the Danish…
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“The Guide,” by Peter Heller, evokes a near future in which coronavirus variants have pushed America’s leisure class to the great outdoors.“The Guide,” by Peter…
View More There’s Something Fishy About This Refuge in the Colorado WildsA Supreme Court That Has Gone Wrong
Erwin Chemerinsky’s “Presumed Guilty” details the many ways the Supreme Court has favored the police over the accused.Erwin Chemerinsky’s “Presumed Guilty” details the many ways…
View More A Supreme Court That Has Gone WrongWhen the Big Bang Was Just a Theory
In “Flashes of Creation,” Paul Halpern offers a dual biography of George Gamow and Fred Hoyle, two midcentury physicists who debated the origins of the…
View More When the Big Bang Was Just a TheoryThe Worldwide Effort to Bar Chinese Immigration
Mai Ngai’s “The Chinese Question” looks at an issue that has disturbed the Anglophone world for decades, and continues to produce divisions today.Mai Ngai’s “The…
View More The Worldwide Effort to Bar Chinese ImmigrationThe Fate of the Self in the Age of Clicks
In “God, Human, Animal, Machine,” the essayist and cultural critic Meghan O’Gieblyn traces how our conception of the human mind has been shaped by our…
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Veteran artist Lalitha Lajmi and curator Lina Vincent discuss life in art as the virtual exhibition Confluence opens for viewingVeteran artist Lalitha Lajmi and curator…
View More Lalitha Lajmi: I practise art everyday, it’s like breathingJimmy Fallon Celebrates the F.D.A.’s Full Approval of a Covid Vaccine
“It’s about time,” Fallon said. “Their statement started with, ‘Hey, sorry, I just saw this.’”“It’s about time,” Fallon said. “Their statement started with, ‘Hey, sorry,…
View More Jimmy Fallon Celebrates the F.D.A.’s Full Approval of a Covid VaccineR. Murray Schafer, Composer Who Heard Nature’s Music, Dies at 88
He delved into the relationship between sound and the environment. Many of his compositions incorporated the music of the natural world.He delved into the relationship…
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