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  • Courtesy Ruth and David Waterbury. Photographs by Robert Fogt.

    features

    The unexpected art

    Woodworking used to mean carpentry, or a weekend hobby. Now there’s a new dimension.

    May/Jun 2013
  • John Paul Chirdon

    Arts & Culture

    You can quote them: Elementary, my dear reader

    The quotations and misquotations of Sherlock Holmes.

    May/Jun 2013
  • Christopher Cappoziello

    features

    Faith, in poetry

    Christian Wiman lost his faith in God, fell in love with poetry, edited a prestigious magazine, got married, got sick, and found God again. Now he’s teaching at Yale.

    May/Jun 2013
  • Arts & Culture

    Pot odyssey

    An author looks at marijuana from all the angles.

    May/Jun 2013
  • Last Look

    Diamonds of a duchess

    Downton Abbey–era opulence at the Center for British Art.

    May/Jun 2013
  • Arts & Culture

    An enslaved poet on slavery

    Object lesson: a newly discovered 18th-century poem by a man living in slavery.

    May/Jun 2013