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By Daniel Jütte
A German kaleidoscope

The View from Barbour County

By Jefferson Cowie
White freedom, federal power, and the Black vote

Feel-Ins, Know-Ins, Be-Ins

By Adam Shatz
The spiritual jazz of Pharoah Sanders

Literature Matters

By Agnes Mueller
Negotiating identity in contemporary German fiction

First Meeting

By David Grubbs
Every mark on paper an acoustic signal

A Gift from Ronald L. Steel

By The Editors
An alumni gift for continuing scholarship

Dignity Matters

By Peter H. Christensen
Architecture honoring the lives that inhabit it

The Friendship Train

By Zachary Shore
Generosity and atonement in midcentury America

Snowman

By Amy Waldman
The art of evanescence

A Tale of Two Coups

By James N. Green
Brazil and the United States

The Sequel

By Mona Simpson
A novelist's second act

No Way Out

By Michael Kimmage
Russia's strategic nightmare in Ukraine

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