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Painting Central Park

by Matt Sutherland

No doubt, the question has been nagging at you for years: What is the finest work of art ever created in the United States? In 1862, Harper’s Monthly decided it was the 843 acres of Manhattan’s Central Park—using words like... Read More

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The First World War

by Matt Sutherland

Shuffle through your memory bank of WWI and you’ll likely visualize grainy, b&w images of trenches, gas masks, zeppelins, and mud, lots of mud. Americans, especially, can’t readily distinguish the Ardennes from Verdun, Ypres from... Read More

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Ultimate Travel

by Matt Sutherland

The eternal refrain of the traveler—Where should I go?—is the first step in any journey, and while there are no wrong answers, some travel consultants are better qualified to make recommendations than others. Lonely Planet, for... Read More

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The Birth of Bourbon

by Matt Sutherland

With plentiful limestone-filtered springwater and an ideal climate, your old Kentucky home was God’s gift to whiskey makers, and early settlers put grain to copper still and bourbon soon ran from it. But Prohibition cut the number of... Read More

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A Chorus of Cranes

by Matt Sutherland

In a 1968 speech to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Senegalese ecologist Baba Dioum said, “In the end, we will protect only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are... Read More

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Underwater Panther

by Matt Sutherland

Winner of the 2014 Cowles Poetry Book Prize, the fetchingly named "Underwater Panther" is Angie Macri’s debut collection of poems rooted in Mississippi River landscapes and lore. Ismenian Dragon Is a constellation bigger than the... Read More

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