A Grand and Bold Thing

How do you map infinity, and make the result elegant, comprehensible, and useful? Such was the challenge facing astronomer Jim Gunn with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a new map of the universe that enlisted the expertise of hundreds of astronomers and led to revolutionary discoveries. Anyone who has ever marveled at the night sky will enjoy Ann Finkbeiner's lucid and thrilling account of how the heavens spilled their secrets.

June 20: Today is World Refugee Day, as designated by the United Nations in 2001. According to the renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, the modern refugee problem should not be attributed to wars and despots but to a civilization that…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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