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THE X-MAN
How Elon Musk became a superhero and then a supervillain.
OFF THE STREET
A journey from homelessness to a room of one's of one's own in New York City.
OLD MEN AND SEA
Plot Summary and Study Guide
THE BELIEVER
How the Times columnist Ross Douthat translates faith to the secular world.
GLOW IN THE DARK
What Kate DiCamillo understands about childhood.
HIGHER CALLING
Scammers with ambition in “Telemarketers” and “BS High.”
THE COUP
In Ariel Dorfman’s new novel, a billionaire has a scheme to save the planet.
HOLY MATRIMONY
George Eliot’s secular sacraments.
THE GREAT INDOORS
How Matthew Wong turned loneliness into a landscape.
SIBERIAN WOOD
The thing about horseradish vodka is that it makes you forget that you’re drinking vodka.
TALK TO ME
Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to another species?
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
Liszt defined musical glamour. But pianists now see substance behind the spectacle.
CLIMATE-CHANGE MYTHS
SHOUTS & MURMURS
Animal Magnetism
Disney takes the high road to profit.
Elon Musk's Shadow Rule
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
FARM TO FABLE
George Orwell's animal allegory.
BARK
Do dogs have history?
THE ELEPHANT VANISHES HARUKI MURAKAMI
When the elephant disappeared from our town's elephant house, I read about it in the newspaper. My alarm clock woke me that day, as always, at six thirteen.
LITTLE WING
When homing pigeons leave home.
THE SQUID HUNTER
Can Steve O'Shea capture the sea's most elusive creature?
PETS ALLOWED
Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn't be?
BUZZED
To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists in Australia dropped liquefied freebase cocaine on bees' backs, so it entered the circulatory system and brain.
HARBORING RATS
Vermin of the waterfront and beyond.
BUTTERFLIES
The childhood of a lepidopterist.
A Neighborhood, Authored
Revisiting "The Making of Boerum Fill.”
Presence of Mind
How the critic Jacqueline Rose learned to read the world
American Dirt
Monster trucks, the stars a the modern thrill show, sell more tickets than Taylor Swift
Alfresco
At Santa Fe Opera, a new orchestration of Monteverdi's "Orfeo."
ALTERED STATES
“Gran Turismo” and Fremont.”
BLANK SPACE
The sly enchantments of Hilary Leichter’s novel Terrace Story.”