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During the curtain call for the closing performance of Verdi’s Il trovatore at the Royal Opera House on 19 July, ...

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Preliminary data published in 2021 strongly suggested that testing positive for Covid was linked to a traumatic ...

What does it mean for a jug to be a jug? Or for any thing to be called a ‘thing’? In his 1950 lecture ‘Das Ding’, Heidegger attempts to cajole his audience away from their everyday way of seeing the ...

The first true lab rat was the Wistar rat, a strain specifically bred for biomedical research. In his “rat universe” experiments, John B. Calhoun placed large numbers of these rats in a controlled ...

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The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described a later version of this life in a splendidly ironic letter to Francesco Vettori: ...

Jackson Lears is the Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University and editor-in-chief of Raritan. His most recent books are Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of ...

Adam Shatz is the LRB ’s US editor. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination, which includes many pieces from the paper, and The Rebel’s Clinic: The ...