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Sep/Oct 2011

Cold case: dinosaur edition

When Nick Longrich was a graduate student in paleontology, he knew he wanted to study the early evolution of birds, starting with the...

Sep/Oct 2012

You can quote them

In two previous columns, I’ve written about “quotation magnets”—people to whom memorable sayings are attributed...

Mar/Apr 2013

What’s old is new again

Thank you for the charming article about Manson Whitlock’s typewriter shop (“Many Happy Returns,” January/February). I probably...

Jul/Aug 2014

The man who saved the dinosaurs

In the summer of 1970, early in the research that would radically transform how we think about birds, dinosaurs, and the origins of animal flight...

Jan/Feb 2015

Sterling’s nave remembered

Thanks for the wonderful photos of Sterling Memorial Library (“Sterling Restored,” November/December), and thanks, too, to Richard...

Jan/Feb 2015

Output

Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks Dick Cavett ’58 Henry Holt, $26 “‘How does it feel to be Dick...

Nov/Dec 2015

“It can’t just be the righteous few.”

A multiracial band of the young and the not-so-young, several dozen in all, is marching through the streets of Atlanta, winding its way from the...

Jul/Aug 2016

A guide to club hopping in Harlem, circa 1932

It was a time, wrote Langston Hughes, “when the Negro was in vogue.” In the 1920s and early ’30s, the arts flourished in Harlem...

Jan/Feb 2019

Reviews: January/February 2019

Bealport: A Novel of a TownJeffrey Lewis ’66Haus Publishing, $22.95Reviewed by Alex Beam ’75 Alex Beam ’75 is a columnist for...

Jul/Aug 2019

Don't listen to the naysayers

Over the course of her career Joan Steitz has compiled a list. She calls it “Advice for Mentees,” and she included it near the end of...

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