Michael Anderson on Marcus Garvey, "the most confounding figure in the history of black America."
D. T. Max on a study of insomnia, written by one of its sufferers.
Lynn Berry on Boris Yeltsin, the complicated figure who "gave Russians a personal independence that they will not easily relinquish."
Karl E. Scheibe looks at the social meaning behind the Nazi salute.
Edith Gelles looks at the muse of the American Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren.
A. J. Loftin on Wallace Stegner, whose fiction is "as wide open as a western sky."
Andrew Starner on Allan Kaprow, "the most known unknown artist of the 20th century."