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A ‘Nature School’ Meets in Brooklyn

A series of workshops hosted by the artist collective Field Meridians will try to get New Yorkers to open their…

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Some Words Feel Truer in Spanish

My earliest relationship with language was defined by rules. As an immigrant who came to this country from Peru at…

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NPR in Turmoil After It Is Accused of Liberal Bias

An essay from an editor at the broadcaster has generated a firestorm of criticism about the network on social media,…

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Does It Seem Like the End Times Are Here? These Novels Know Better.

On the day my mother died, I sat by her bedside and read the Psalms. The room was quiet —…

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The Very High Stakes of Failing to Help Ukraine

Since Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine in 2014, a rare consensus has formed in Washington around this conviction: America must…

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Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans?

In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell…

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My Faith Forbade Eclipse Gazing. Now It Inspires My Art.

As a child growing up in the Hare Krishna community in the United States, I was forbidden to be outside…

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Larry David, Philosopher King

“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” the HBO comedy series created by and starring Larry David, debuted way back in 1999 and comedy,…

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How a Vacant Lot Became Our Own Dirtbag Narnia

On a quiet street in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, just a few steps from my back door, is a…

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My Story Was Told in ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Here’s What I Want the World to Know Now.

This week, the world will again turn its eyes toward Rwanda. April 6 marks 30 years since the start of…

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