Published: May 16, 2017, 5:36 p.m.
Sarah Williams Goldhagen takes us on a tour of New York\u2019s High Line\u2014and the insides of our brains\u2014and Judith Matloff talks about traveling 72,000 miles, across nearly a dozen mountain ranges, as she investigated why the world\u2019s highlands harbor so much violence.
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