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Copy editor Mary Norris shares her enchantment with the Greek language.
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Copy editor Mary Norris shares her enchantment with the Greek language.
Emily Bazelon explores the politics and personal stories of America’s legal system.
Mark Wigglesworth offers insights and meditations on conducting.
The columnist charts his path toward a new understanding of community, and how it can change America.
Heidi J.S. Tworek traces the ways officials shaped journalism in early 20th-century Germany.
How’d they do it? One writer pieces it together.
This year we hear from Pete Rose, Bud Selig, Ron Darling, Luis Tiant and more.
Leo Damrosch’s biography seamlessly mixes learned exposition with striking factoids and observations.
To protect black rights, Hiram Whitley wasn’t afraid to break a few laws.
President Obama’s senior adviser recounts her life and journey to the White House.
Alex Kotlowitz chronicles the nature of life and death in Chicago’s poor neighborhoods
Matt Farwell and Michael Ames tell Bowe Bergdahl’s story alongside a history of the Afghan war.
Mark Bowden traces how police delivered closure on the 1975 disappearance of two girls.
Michael Dobbs recounts horrors of Jews in Germany and France as U.S. blocked refugees.
War correspondents flocked to Hotel Scribe in 1944 as the Allies drove out German forces.
The memoir in essays by the co-founder of Very Smart Brothas is both incisive and hilarious.
Six books for those who like to read about books
Hallie Rubenhold’s “The Five” offers a blistering counter-narrative to the legend of a demon preying on prostitutes.
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade’s daring deeds during World War II have largely been overlooked.
Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer present an institution without heroes — just winners and losers.
