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June 2022

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Flesh, Blood & Bronze

A sculptor’s herculean effort to create the epic national monument to World War I

By Jeff MacGregor

Photographs by Vincent Tullo

a women with the flag of Ukraine at a protest

Not Far From Kyiv

To residents of Southern California with ties to Russia and Ukraine, the war feels close to home

Photographs and interviews by Stella Kalinina

In a Tight Spot

Racing to save a delightful coastal animal from rising seas

Photograph by Lauren Owens Lambert

Text by Maddie Bender

The Real Pinocchio

Forget everything you know about the cartoon puppet. The 19th-century story, now in a new translation, was a rallying cry for universal education and Italian nationhood

By Perri Klass

Photographs by Simona Ghizzoni

Escape from the Gilded Cage

Even if her husband was a murderer, a woman in a bad marriage once had few options. Unless she fled to South Dakota

By April White

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Discussion

Your thoughts on Italian villages, the legend of the music tree and the politics of wind power

Ethical Collecting

For more than a century, museum artifacts were acquired in ways we no longer find acceptable. How can we repair the damage?

Popular Wisdom

The world’s largest book repository is also a monument to democracy

Van Gogh in the Grove

A new exhibition of lesser known works during a pivotal time sheds light on his budding genius

Role of a Lifetime

An unpublished memoir reveals how the world’s most famous child actress became a star of the environmental movement

A Brief History of Red Drink

The obscure roots of a centuries-old beverage that’s now a Juneteenth fixture

The Next Clone

Forget Dolly the Sheep. The birth of this mouse 25 years ago launched a scientific revolution

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