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Algerian Chronicles shows that Camus still has something to say to us—not about terrorism but economic justice.

On city walls across the country, muralists and street artists depict him as a statesman, visionary, hero and martyr.

A portrait of the journalist and intellectual who championed the caboclos of the young Brazilian republic.

FDR, Fiorello La Guardia and rebuilding New York City during the New Deal.

How did a man who got so many things wrong become an intellectual celebrity in his own lifetime?

Frustrated, stubborn, committed to bad science, was Louis Agassiz anything other than a laughingstock?

On a Farther Shore captures the conservationist’s deep sense of geologic time and the forces of evolution.

In his writing and life, Thomas Bernhard led a charge in the opposite direction. His publisher always broke his fall.

A new biography of John Keats is no match for Keats’s poetic inventions.