Spring 2009 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
Updike at Rest
Robert Wilson
Letters
Response to Our Winter Issue
Our readers
Letters From …
Paris: A Twombly Ceiling
Grant Rosenberg
Works in Progress
Things to Come in the Arts and Sciences
Not Available Online
Allen Freeman
Tuning Up
Who Was Hall?
Jeremy Bernstein
Commonplace Book
Debt
Anne Matthews
Point of Departure
Franklin in Paris
Stacy Schiff
Book Essay
Literary Cubs, Canceling Out Each Other’s Reticence
David A. Taylor
Book Reviews
The Peacock Problem
Priscilla Long
The Peacock Problem
Alexander Nehamas
Founding Portraitists
Fergus M. Bordewich
Dark Mysteries
Angeline Goreau
At Liberty to Divulge
John Rolfe Gardiner
Circular Bread Line
Sandra M. Gilbert
Articles
The Terminator Comes to Wall Street
Joseph Fuller
How computer modeling worsened the financial crisis and what we ought to do about it
Purpose-Driven Life
Brian Boyd
Evolution does not rob life of meaning, but creates meaning. It also makes possible our own capacity for creativity.
Second Chances, Social Forgiveness, and the Internet
Amitai Etzioni
We need the means, both technological and legal, to replace measures once woven into the fabric of communities
The Potency of Breathless
Paula Marantz Cohen
At 50, Godard’s film still asks how something this bad can be so good
The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln
Ernest B. Furgurson
The hatter Boston Corbett was celebrated as a hero for killing John Wilkes Booth. Fame and fortune did not follow, but madness did.
Visions and Revisions
William Zinsser
Writing On Writing Well and keeping it up-to-date for 35 years
Dawn of a Literary Friendship
John McIntyre
In 1969 the writer Robert Phelps first wrote to the novelist James Salter. Here are the letters that forged a bond of two decades.
I Wanted to Be Robert Phelps
Michael Dirda
The Dowser Dilemma
Kate Daloz
How a town in Vermont found water it desperately needed and an explanation that was harder to swallow
Poetry
Belmont Park
Not Available Online
John Koethe
Snowglobe
Not Available Online
Tony Hoagland
Laika
Not Available Online
Esther Schor
Arts
The Potency of Breathless
Paula Marantz Cohen
At 50, Godard’s film still asks how something this bad can be so good
Vibrato Wars
Sudip Bose
Elgar, served neat and unshaken, stirs up the Brits
