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In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was a much-lauded leader in the contemporary civil rights movement.      In this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones’s life, from his extramarital affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing to the fraught decision to move almost a thousand of his followers to a settlement in the jungles of Guyana in South America. G...

Review: Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, by Rivka Galchen FICTION: Superstition and reason collide in 17th-century Germany.  By Dan Cryer Special to the Star Tribune June 4, 2021 — 8:22am Text size Copy sho...

Human nature and ‘Beloved Beasts’ How best can we protect and defend the same animal kingdom we endanger? By Dan Cryer Globe Correspondent,Updated March 4, 2021, 2:38 p.m. Email to a Friend On Oct. 29, 1929, at the annual meeting of the National Association of Audubon Societies [ sic], a hitherto-unknown upper-crust birdwatcher from Manhattan’s Upper East Side rose from the audience to address the society’s directors. Rosalie Edge, a former suffragist, wasn’t intimid...