Author Essays, Interviews, and Excerpts

Five Questions with Susan Engel, author of “American Kindergarten: Dispatches from the First Year of School”

What can or should we expect during the first year of school? How are children learning and growing during those hours spent away from their

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Author Essays, Interviews, and Excerpts

Five Questions with Federico Marcon, author of “Fascism”

In his latest book, Federico Marcon gives us wide-ranging history of the term “fascism,” what it has meant, and what it means today. Exploring the

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Reading list

A (Mostly Platonic) Valentine’s Day 2026 Reading List

Valentine’s Day can be both a beautiful and fraught time, with the pressures and expectations of grand passions and even grander gestures of roses, chocolate,

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