Books & Literary Life


Developing Dads

Exploring the evolutionary biology of human fathers as caretakers

by Richard G. Bribiescas

Open Book

Michael Ignatieff on Abraham Lincoln on solace

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Music and Language, Reconciled

Matthew Aucoin on opera

by Thomas Forrest Kelly

Looking for the Real Stan Lee

Biographer Abraham Riesman plumbs the dark mysteries of the Marvel auteur

by Dan Kelly

Thinking Straight

Steven Pinker on rationality

War, Misremembered

Elizabeth Samet, of West Point, reinterprets the American understanding of World War II.

Border Crossing

Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.

by Nancy Walecki

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A Democracy of Opportunity

Liberals must learn from conservatives how to interpret the Constitution in all its dimensions.

by Lincoln Caplan

Notes on Doctoring

Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson