A brilliant and charming new collection of essays, ‘Homo Irrealis,’ starts in Egypt, travels to Rome, and ends on the other side of an Eric Rohmer film, by way of Billy Wilder, Fernando Pessoa, and W.G. Sebald
How my family became friends with the humble and kind baseball great
Black History Month: Jules Dassin’s militantly Black 1968 movie echoes American social tumult today
Black History Month: A brief history of an often-pernicious and persistent question of race
Black History Month: How whistleblower Peter Buxtun came to recognize a great injustice, and act on it
Tuskegee was hardly the last time American medical researchers used men in unethical experiments
What’s gained and lost in ‘cultural identity’ and religion when families decide to adopt across race lines
Tuning in to the 1970s historical family sagas that defined a generation’s idea of victimhood and survival—and changed television
A discovery, just in time for Black History Month
The influential Newark rabbi was a confidante of Martin Luther King, but he’s been all but ignored by history