Poetry Challenge Day 4: What The Stars Can Teach Us About Love
Writers have been pondering the sky for centuries, but this poem helps us feel a little less solitary. Brush up on its last lines today, and tomorrow we’ll talk about the whole thing.
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Poetry Challenge Day 4: What The Stars Can Teach Us About Love
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Poetry Challenge Day 3: W.H. Auden, The Poet and His Technique
It helps to be a little heartsick — and the best poet of your time. Our weeklong poetry challenge continues, including W.H. Auden himself reading “The More Loving One.”
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Poetry Challenge Day 3: W.H. Auden, The Poet and His Technique
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Andrew Hacker, Provocative Political Scientist, Dies at 96
In a host of books and articles, he attacked conventional ideas on subjects including the battle of the sexes and the usefulness of high school math.
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Andrew Hacker, Provocative Political Scientist, Dies at 96
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The Month’s Best New Mystery Novels
Our columnist says Jordan Harper’s “A Violent Masterpiece” is just that: a violent masterpiece.
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The Month’s Best New Mystery Novels
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Book Review: ‘Israel: What Went Wrong?,’ by Omer Bartov
In “Israel: What Went Wrong?,” Omer Bartov charts how a nation founded in the wake of trauma abandoned the emancipatory impulse of its origins.
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Book Review: ‘Israel: What Went Wrong?,’ by Omer Bartov
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America Is Anxious About Its 250th Birthday. So Are Historians.
At the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, scholars wrestled with what people want from national anniversaries — and whether historians can give it to them.
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America Is Anxious About Its 250th Birthday. So Are Historians.