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- How woolly mammoth bones baffled previous generations
John McKay, author of 'Discovering the Mammoth,' talks about the theories that earlier generations developed in their struggle to understand woolly mammoth bones.
- 'The Arena' explores America's stadiums and their relation to the national character
'The Arena' is fun because of the author’s wit and style – a kind of gonzo/embedded journalism hybrid.
- 'Notes on a Foreign Country' is an American's struggle to understand her country's relation to the world
Journalist Suzy Hansen wonders how she, an Ivy League-educated journalist, could have been so ignorant of the extent of the US's role in remaking the post-World War II world.
- 10 best books of August 2017, according to Amazon's editors Enjoy the last of summer's days with one of these books by your side.
- How a poet brought the Statue of Liberty to life
Esther Schor, biographer of Emma Lazarus, talks about what she means today.
- 'Grocery' is Michael Ruhlman's exploration of the grocery store as an idea and institution
Consider, says Ruhlman, the most compelling evidence of a civilization's evolutionary leap: the grocery store....