Oren Harman's "Metamorphosis" explores the minutiae of biological change and the mechanics of how life shifts forms.

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A new biography of Peter Matthiessen chronicles his many paradoxical attempts to escape who the world expected him to be.

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If currency values, stores, and measures labor’s creative output, then to remove its physical component is to remove its human foundation.

Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore explores the ongoing struggle to amend America's founding document and keep it a living framework for an evolving nation.

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