Autumn 2008 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
Rattling with Implications
Robert Wilson
Letters
Response to Our Summer Issue
Our readers
Letters From …
Burma: Captives of the Junta
William Lychack
Works in Progress
Things to Come in the Arts and Sciences
Sandra Beasley
Tuning Up
The Most Important Election in History
Christopher Clausen
Commonplace Book
Secrets
Anne Matthews
Point of Departure
America's Dark Page
Marcus Rediker
Book Essay
The Swiveling Light of Truth
Roberta Silman
Book Reviews
Immortality Gained
Jay Parini
Copyright Wrongs
Paul K. Saint-Amour
How Special a Relationship?
Joshua Hawley
Potted History
Scott Reynolds Nelson
Shaking Habit's House
Sarah L. Courteau
The Preparation of a Lifetime
Sanford J. Ungar
Articles
The Censor in the Mirror
Ha Jin
It's not only what the Chinese Propaganda Department does to artists, but what it makes artists do to their own work
The Torture Colony
Bruce Falconer
In a remote part of Chile, an evil German evangelist built a utopia whose members helped the Pinochet regime perform its foulest deeds
Where Does American History Begin?
Ted Widmer
Mixing geography with invention, the first explorers and mapmakers made the New World a very hard place to pin down
Something Called Terrorism
Leonard Bernstein
In a speech given at Harvard 22 years ago and never before published, Leonard Bernstein offered a warning that remains timely
The New Old Way of Learning Languages
Ernest Blum
Now all but vanished, a once-popular system of reading Greek and Latin classics could revitalize modern teaching methods
Poetry
Apollo and Dionysus
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Langdon Hammer
Henri Cole combines the formal and the sensual
Four Poems
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Henri Cole
Bronze Bells of Autumn
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Linda Pastan
Arts
From Oppressed to Oppressors
Wendy Smith
The Battle of Algiers took a pitiless look at the war for Algerian independence, but the filmmakers could not foresee the failures that would result
