When “Gender Deception” Is a Crime (opens on The New Yorker)
A new book revisits a notorious British sexual-assault trial in which a woman was convicted of posing as a man in bed.
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Why America Looks the Way It Does (opens on The New Yorker)
From vast grids to winding suburbs, Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property.
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How America Became Antifascist (opens on The New Yorker)
Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around.