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Andrew Delbanco
The cost of college is rising faster than public, institutional, or, for most Americans, personal resources available to meet it.
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Marina Warner
The Complete First Edition of the Grimms’ tales is a classic, formed like a mosaic of precious small pieces, each one glinting with its own color and character, glassy and crystalline, but somehow hard, unyielding.
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William Dalrymple
Today is International Yoga Day, with events being held in 192 countries. This 2014 review explores the origins of the“most successful Indian export into the global marketplace of spirituality.”
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Geoff Dyer
When they came east in 1959, Ornette Coleman’s quartet didn’t just take the roof off the 5 Spot; they took the roof off the idea of the roof and, as a result, left jazz exposed to the elements.
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Bill McKibben
The pope—the most prominent person on the planet, and of all leaders the most skilled at using gesture to communicate—has managed to get across the crucial point: our environmental peril is the most pressing issue of our time.
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Garry Wills
When a Republican politician, asked about climate change, says, “I’m not a scientist,” most of us hear just a cowardly way of dodging the question; but the politician’s supporters hear a brave defiance of an alien force.
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