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Arts & Letters 2010: SpringAmong the contributors John Ruskin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louis Armstrong, Vincent Van Gogh, Yang Wanli, Glenn Gould, Frédéric Chopin, Marianne Moore, Vasily Kandinsky, Michelangelo, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salman Rushdie, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Wagner -
Religion 2010: WinterAmong the contributors Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Mary McCarthy, Friedrich Nietzsche, Terry Eagleton, Martin Luther, William James, Flannery O’Connor, John Krakauer, Hafiz, Vladimir Lenin, Jonathan Edwards, John Donne, H.L. Mencken -
Medicine 2009: FallAmong the contributors Louis Pasteur, Elizabeth Blackwell, Sigmund Freud, Molière, Doris Lessing, Oliver Sacks, Hippocrates, Ken Kesey, Louisa May Alcott, Galen, William Carlos Williams, Atul Gawande, Maimonides, Fanny Burney -
Travel 2009: SummerAmong the contributors Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, Gertrude Bell, Marco Polo, Lewis Carroll, Isak Dinesen, E.M. Forster, Ernest Shackleton, Jack Kerouac, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Columbus, Florence Nightingale, Bruce Chatwin -
Crimes & Punishments 2009: SpringAmong the contributors Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Jack the Ripper, Franz Kafka, Jean Genet, Haruki Murakami, Hannah Arendt, Dexter Filkins, Maximilien de Robespierre, Michel Foucault, Jeremy Bentham, Primo Levi, Shirley Jackson -
Eros 2009: WinterAmong the contributors Vladimir Nabokov, Henry VIII, Giacomo Casanova, Marguerite Duras, John Keats, Simone de Beauvoir, Walt Whitman, Sappho, Marquis de Sade, Ovid, Philip Roth, Anaïs Nin, Alfred Kinsey, Thomas Mann -
Ways of Learning 2008: FallAmong the contributors Leonardo da Vinci, Elizabeth Bishop, René Descartes, Buddha, Hellen Keller, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Plato, John Stuart Mill, Carl Jung, Jane Addams, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Chaucer, Donald Barthelme -
Book of Nature 2008: SummerAmong the contributors Charles Darwin, John Steinbeck, Rachel Carson, William Wordsworth, Jack London, John Muir, Jamaica Kincaid, Jules Verne, Theodore Roosevelt, Bill McKibben, Simon Winchester, Al Gore, Ralph Waldo Emerson -
About Money 2008: SpringAmong the contributors Karl Marx, Edith Wharton, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, Jane Austen, Thomas More, Thorstein Veblen, Upton Sinclair, Dorothy Parker, Nikolai Gogol, Adam Smith, Ayn Rand, Tom Wolfe, Lorenzo de’ Medici -
States of War 2008: WinterAmong the contributors Thucydides, Sun Tzu, George Orwell, Homer, Joseph Goebbels, Wilfred Owen, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Edward Gibbon, Siegfried Sassoon, George W. Bush, Julia Ward Howe, W.H. Auden, George Patton
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- Déjà Vu Is history repeating itself? The Déjà Vu blog investigates... Our Eyes Ache With Reading — Coping with information overload in the seventeenth century and the twenty-first. Should Have Sent a Poet — Wyclef Jean and Gabriele D’Annunzio are both artists turned politicians who wanted to bring a healing brand of nationalism back to their home countries. National Pastime — Lacrosse is one of the oldest games in North America, but the Iroquois national team can’t seem get off the continent for the World Championships in England.
- Roundtable Insight and analysis from renowned writers and thinkers. This Tennis Life — Andre Agassi’s literary memoir is a sports book that even David Foster Wallace could have loved. Thrilla in Manila — Basketball is the dominant sport in the Philippines, where companies own the teams and bad calls aren’t tolerated by the fans. The Horns of a Dilemma — The end of bullfighting in Catalonia dims the lights on one of Spain’s oldest sports.
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The World in Time: Secret Lives of Insects
Anthropologist Hugh Raffles uncovers the dramatic lives and deaths of insects in his new book Insectopedia, from cricket fighting in Shanghai to the Japanese trend of keeping beetles as pets.
