Teaching Should Be Political
How to talk about race in the classroom
Book Review
Beyond the Myth of Malcolm X
Understanding the humanity, and the communities, that shaped the brilliant, troubled, selfish, generous, sincere radical
How to Get Rich By Losing Lots of Money
Adam Neumann is out of his WeWork job, but entrepreneurs will surely imitate him.
Reading Thomas Jefferson’s Bible
The president preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly.
Why We’re Afraid of Bats
On how we know—and how we learn—what to fear
How Jimi Hendrix’s London Years Changed Music
A new book retells the artist’s fairy tale—rising out of deprivation to storm the spires of rock and roll—by considering his influence on the U.K.
In Search of the First Female Sports Superstar
The remarkable career of the Victorian athletic phenom Charlotte Dod—and the legacy that wasn’t
Who You’re Reading When You Read Haruki Murakami
His early translated works, the subject of a fascinating new book, shed light on the business of bringing the best-selling novelist to a global audience.
Marilynne Robinson’s Prodigal Son
Her new novel, Jack, explores the loneliest character in her Gilead series and the legacy of race.
A New Theory of Western Civilization
Could a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago explain what made the industrialized world so powerful—and so peculiar?