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Anthony and Grietje left the maelstrom of 17th-century Amsterdam to start over in the New World. Their lives didn’t get any easier, writes @tunkuv wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

How did Harlem Village Academies improve student performance? The charter network’s founder lays out her philosophy of education, writes Naomi Schaefer Riley wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Mary Todd Lincoln buried her husband as well as three of four sons. Grief of a different sort defined her relationship with her eldest child, writes Melanie Kirkpatrick wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

14 Books We Read This Week: Science in the age of machine learning, life in Ceaușescu’s Romania, remembering Audrey Hepburn and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Eyeglasses are not neutral in literary works. Shakespeare sometimes scorned them. Harry Potter’s mark him as intelligent and vulnerable, writes Nuno Castel-Branco wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Preston Brooks hailed from a South Carolina county where honor and manhood were judged by one’s willingness to use violence, writes Fergus M. Bordewich wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

The Soul of Golf: Selected by Gene Wojciechowski, a former ESPN golf reporter and the author of the novel "All Carry." wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

The Best Reviews of April: The truth of daily life under Stalin, keeping time in a world before clocks, how the Rolling Stones began and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

13 Books We Read This Week: The traces of early human societies, an American painter of nature’s grandeur, an Istanbul neighborhood’s divides and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

One fashion photographer’s view of the Kentucky Derby puts the focus on the spectators at Churchill Downs, writes Angelina Torre wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

The regional accent associated with New England has some features in common with that of the American South. But they spring from different sources, writes Michael Patrick Brady wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

15 Books We Read This Week: Washington goes west, marathon madness, the power of an ancient epic and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Genetic mutations are more pervasive than previously thought, causing cancer and other ailments. Are there possible benefits as well? asks David A. Shaywitz wsj.com/tech/biotech/b…

Our Celebration of Spring Reading: Lewis and Clark, the Rolling Stones, John Foster Dulles and more from the season’s most exciting books. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

To defeat foreign foes, Palantir’s chief technology officer urges us to confront the naysayers entrenched within the Pentagon. ~~ I review MOBILIZE, a very timely & constructive book by @ssankar, written with @Madeline_Zimm wsj.com/arts-culture/b… via @WSJBooks

14 Books We Read This Week: A death in 21st-century London, liberal democracy under threat, when the Beatles met Bob Dylan and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

What we think we want is often undermined by what we actually want. Can psychoanalysis make sense of our most insidious urges? asks Tara Isabella Burton wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

A self-assured, naive young woman joins a dysfunctional theater company in Beryl Bainbridge’s darkly comic novel of mishaps and maturity, writes Donna Sanders wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Rory McIlroy’s successes have been interspersed with periods of poor play. His greatness stems from his ability to fight through adversity, writes John Paul Newport wsj.com/sports/golf/ro…

14 Books We Read This Week: Britain’s long war, meeting the Mets, a honky-tonk bard and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…