The Colby College Museum of Art reopens, ready to share its $100 million gift and quietly bold vision.
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When It Comes to Kindles, Do You “Like” or Unlink?
Social reading will bring us together while restoring a long tradition in the history of the book. Still …
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All Tomorrow’s Parties
Gay Equality 1, Civil Rights 0 – join us in wondering how to celebrate this Fourth of July. (Hint: not by seeing Johnny Depp’s new movie, that’s for sure.)
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Putin Loves Me, Putin Loves Me Not
A conversation with the author of a new book about the Russian president, touching on fomenting dissent in the country, Syria, and the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
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Mo’ Children, Mo’ Problems
Are the parents of only children selfish? Maybe, but Lauren Sandler’s new book says that’s okay.
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Agee, Before He Was Famous
Can a rediscovered first draft of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men speak more directly to our time than the finished masterpiece?
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George Packer’s U.S.A.
The author’s chronicle of solitary Americans after the financial crash is nostalgic—but for what, exactly?
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Rediscovering Albert Hirschman
Resistance fighter. Development economist. Philosopher. A new biography of the thinker who redeemed political economy for liberals.
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Da Gr8 Gatsbee
Nobody’s going to mistake Baz Luhrman’s adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic for a great movie. But, there’s no doubt it’s a fun ride.
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Sex, Economics, and Austerity
The real meaning of Niall Ferguson’s John Maynard Keynes-was-gay jibe—and why Keynes is so threatening to conservative economists and moralists alike.
