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Welcome to the lifelong struggle of dealing with our creator’s sickest joke—putting rotting bones in our eating holes.

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A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

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Is a River Alive?, by Robert Macfarlane (Norton). Rivers in Ecuador, India, and Canada provide the settings for this elegant travelogue, which asks whether a natural entity, such as a river, can be ...