Spring 2011 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
War, Civil and Otherwise
Robert Wilson
Letters
Response to our Winter 2011 Issue
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Our readers
Letters From …
Sri Lanka: Living Dangerously
Michael Hardy
Works in Progress
Things to Come in the Arts and Sciences
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Allen Freeman
Tuning Up
Street Scenes
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Ann Hood
Commonplace Book
Patience
Anne Matthews
Point of Departure
The True Church
William Deresiewicz
Book Essay
An Italian Tragedy
Janna Malamud Smith
Book Reviews
Terrorist in Chief
Paul Salopek
Aping Us
Clive D. L. Wynne
Patriot Games
Elbert Ventura
Harlem Notes
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Bard Justice
Jacob A. Stein
Math & Magic
Sam Kean
Articles
Civil Warfare in the Streets
Adam Goodheart
After Fort Sumter, German immigrants in St. Louis flocked to the Union cause and in bloody confrontations overthrew the local secessionists
How Longfellow Woke the Dead
Jill Lepore
When first published 150 years ago, his famous poem about Paul Revere was read as a bold statement of his opposition to slavery
Interview with a Neandertal
Priscilla Long
What I always wanted to ask our distant cousins about love and death and sorrow and dinner
‘I Tried to Stop the Bloody Thing’
Adam Hochschild
In World War I, nearly as many British men refused the draft—20,000—as were killed on the Somme's first day. Why were those who fought for peace forgotten?
The View from 90
Doris Grumbach
Even when those in my generation have reached a state of serenity, wisdom, and relative comfort, what we face can hardly be called the golden years
Baseball’s Loss of Innocence
Douglas Goetsch
When the 1919 Black Sox scandal shattered Ring Lardner’s reverence for the game, the great sportswriter took a permanent walk
Poetry
Homage to a Bad Boy: John Ashbery
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Langdon Hammer
Two Translations from Rimbaud's Illuminations and Two Poems
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John Ashbery
Arts
Seeing Red
Robert J. Bliwise
Can we understand Rothko's work without decoding his favorite color?
