Readers Respond to the April Issue
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Allen Ginsberg’s Beat Family Album
The famous beat poet’s photographs reveal an American counterculture at work and play
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The Chandra X-Ray Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory helps scientists observe a fantastic range of phenomena
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In 1972, artists Christo Jeanne-Claude envisioned building a fence, but it would take a village to make their Running Fence happen
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Harper Lee’s Novel Achievement
With To Kill a Mockingbird, published 50 years ago, Lee gave America a story for the ages. Just don’t ask her about it
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Beware the hidden hazards lurking within popular children’s books
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Top Five U.S. Events of the Last 40 Years
What events, ideas or developments have had the most significant impact in our lives since 1970?
Another side of Kurds and Romans
Momentous or Merely Memorable
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After years of conflict, Turkey’s tradition-rich Kurdish minority is experiencing a joyous cultural reawakening
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Excavations of villas where Roman emperors escaped the office are giving archaeologists new insights into the imperial way of life
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A Year of Hope for Joplin and Johnson
In 1910, the boxer Jack Johnson and the musician Scott Joplin embodied a new sense of possibility for African-Americans
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To Be…Or Not: The Greatest Shakespeare Forgery
William-Henry Ireland committed a scheme so grand that he fooled even himself into believing he was William Shakespeare’s true literary heir
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In Kyoto, Feeling Forever Foreign
Travel writer Pico Iyer remains both fascinated and puzzled by the ancient Japanese city
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American Food Posters From World War I and II
Cory Bernat is the creator of an intriguing online exhibit of American food posters related to World Wars I and II
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Wishing Jim Thorpe a Happy Birthday
Jim Thorpe was the original 20th-century world-class, multi-sport athlete
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