Mark Twain left behind notes for a children’s story, soon to be published. How faithful should it be to his perspective? By Mythili G. Rao

Revisiting the work of A. E. Housman. By Adam Kirsch.

Two Princeton physicists catch Albert up. By Steven Gubser, Frans Pretorius.

The slaying of Gauri Lankesh shows how much trouble India's liberal democracy is in. By Shikha Dalmia.

Her husband, Claude, helped create the computer revolution, but few knew that she was his closest collaborator

A year before leaving Enfield—the Georgian-style school building would later be converted into a train station and then ultimately be demolished—John Keats discovered Books. Books were the spoils left by the Incas, by Captain Cook’s voyages, Robinson Crusoe... By Fleur Jaeggy.

Dissatisfied with other honorifics for women, Ms. Michaels undertook “a timid eight-year crusade” to usher the term back into being after decades of disuse.By Margalit Fox. (July 6, 2017)

James Thomas Snyder celebrates Rebecca West’s classic “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.”

Krisel is particularly known for the scores of tract homes he designed in Palm Springs, which featured open floor plans, “butterfly” roofs and enough variation so they didn’t look cookie-cutter. By Matt Guilhem, Laurel Wamsley. (June 6, 2017)

One year ago, a chosen few brought Muhammad Ali back to Louisville for the last time. This is the story of how they carried out their sacred calling. By Tom Junod.

An inspired biography. By Scott Beauchamp.

If ever there was a man who displayed on his face the evil on his mind, it was Zbigniew Brzezinski… By John Helmer in Moscow.

Having experienced both Nazi and Communist rule, Poland’s great exile poet arrived at a unique blend of skepticism and sincerity. By Adam Kirsch.

The pioneering designer created dozens of fonts, only a few of which are still around today. By Cara Giaimo.

Brzezinski was a Polish-born American who served in both the Carter and Lyndon Johnson administrations.

Alice Kaplan tells the life story of L’Étranger (The Outsider in Britain, The Stranger in the United States) with verve and insight.

Clair Patterson determined the age of the Earth—and then he saved it. By Lucas Reilly.

The Fox News founder made this the hate-filled, moronic country it is today. By Matt Taibbi.

Mr. Sand earned a reputation in the 1960s for making some of the purest LSD on the market, including Orange Sunshine, before the law finally caught up with him. By Williiam Grimes.

“I’m a surprisingly limited photographer,” Penn insisted to me, “and I’ve learned not to go beyond my capacity. I’ve tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I’ve failed.” Yet it is difficult to deny that Penn was the supreme studio photographer of the twentieth century. His artistry both emerged from and depended on his very specific, highly aestheticized commercial work. By Martin Filler.