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The architects of silence — why Brutalism endures
Concrete and controversy, half a century on. The buildings everyone hated are now the ones people queue to photograph.
By Marcus Ito · 2 min read
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The lost library of Timbuktu
Hundreds of thousands of manuscripts survived conquest, occupation, and fire. The scholars who saved them are still counting.
By Dana Whitcombe
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What jazz left behind — the new musicians making it strange again
A generation of players has stopped trying to preserve the tradition and started treating it as raw material.
By Priya Raman