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Nicole Eustace
An Expanding Vision of America

Major new books about the peoples who lived in North America for millennia before the arrival of Europeans are reshaping the history of the continent.

Joshua Craze
USAID: Goodbye to All That?

By gutting USAID, the Trump administration has imperiled the lives of thousands—and threatened the very future of the humanitarian and development industries.

David Cole
Profiles in Self-Censorship

Under pressure from the Trump administration, many universities are preemptively scaling back their DEI programs—even though no law requires them to.

Michael Dirda
The Chronicler of Unhappiness

Ford Madox Ford’s sensuous, vital novels often drew on the events of his rich and muddled life.

Jed Perl
Echoes of Eternity

The critic Arlene Croce found in classical ballet timeless values in a timely form, but she looked to modern dance for the reverse: timely values taking on a timeless form.

Naomi Cohen
Turkey: The Buried and the Dead

In the aftermath of devastating earthquakes in 2023, survivors looking for the missing have been trapped in a legal and bureaucratic labyrinth.

Free from the Archives

On March 13, 1781—244 years ago today—the English astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus, the first time a new planet was added to humanity’s map of the solar system since at least the second millennium BCE, when the Babylonians had documented the first six planets orbiting the sun.

In the Review’s October 24, 2019, issue, Priyamvada Natarajan wrote about the discoveries of the remotest outer planets: Uranus, Neptune (observed on several occasions in history, but “properly identified” in 1846), and Pluto (theorized as “Planet X” in 1905 based on irregularities in Neptune’s orbit, first observed in 1930 by “Clyde Tombaugh, a Kansas farm boy who ground his own lenses and built telescopes,” and, in 2006, “demoted in status to a ‘dwarf planet’”).

Priyamvada Natarajan
In Search of Planet X

“Uranus was seen to move erratically, as though something else was tugging at it, altering its motion….”

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