Our February 13 issue is now online, with Deborah Eisenberg on Kafka’s ephemera, Blair McClendon on irrepressible Alvin Ailey, Daniel J. Kevles on the human cost of Washington’s Mount Vernon, Giles Harvey on Colm Tóibín, Jessica Riskin on the stubborn determinists,  Robert O. Paxton on Charles de Gaulle’s sonorous memoirs, Jé Wilson on the enchantments of La Chimera, Gary Saul Morson on the failures of liberalism in Russia, Caitlin Zaloom on the dominance of economic thinking, poems by Maria Galina and Aaron Poochigian, and much more.

Daniel J. Kevles
Farmer George

Bruce Ragsdale’s Washington at the Plow examines the connections between the first president’s commitment to agricultural innovation and his evolving attitudes toward his enslaved laborers at Mount Vernon.

Caitlin Zaloom
Too Close for Comfort

Why are economists are in the US today uniquely able to exercise such sway over the state?

Robyn Creswell
Bewildered Rhapsodies

The difficult history of translating a miraculous text

Andrew Butterfield
A Half-Century of Artistic Genius

For two generations Sienese painters and sculptors engaged in a nonstop flurry of experimentation and innovation.

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