Our critic on the month’s best releases. By Alida Becker A new book collects the Paper Magazine co-founder Kim Hastreiter’s most treasured belongings, and friends. By Tas Tobey In “The M ...

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In “The Stained Glass Window,” David Levering Lewis delves into his ancestry to create a fuller picture of his family and its place in American history. David Sheff’s new biography, “Yoko ...

TO every science, works which bring together the data of the subject are essential, and to none more so than to palæobotany, which is based on the correlation of fragmentary remains from all ...

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