Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By

A witty illustrated guide to disappearing objects and ideas,  from privacy and cash to blind dates and -- yikes! -- books.

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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