Summer 2011 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
Departures
Robert Wilson
Letters
Response to our Spring 2011 Issue
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Our readers
Letters From …
The Mexican Border: Crossing a Cultural Divide
Reed Karaim
Works in Progress
Things to Come in the Arts and Sciences
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Allen Freeman
Tuning Up
Why I Love You
David Lehman
Commonplace Book
Resistance
Anne Matthews
Point of Departure
Habit
Paula Marantz Cohen
Book Essay
Ardent Spirit, Generous Friend
David Guy
Book Reviews
The Inside Track
Mark Hertsgaard
Full Bloom
Michael Dirda
Frozen Assets
Hampton Sides
Deep Trouble
Emily Bernard
Deep Trouble
Richard Ellis
Scholar-Activist
James Gibney
A Survey and an Assertion
Carlin Romano
Beyond Nerves
Laure Murat
Articles
Flacking for Big Pharma
Harriet Washington
Drugmakers don’t just compromise doctors; they also undermine top medical journals and skew medical research
Making Sparks Fly
Mike Rose
How occupational education can lead to a love of learning for its own sake
In the Orbit of Copernicus
Owen Gingerich
A discovery of the great astronomer's bones, and their reburial in Poland
Plunging to Earth
Robert Zaretsky
Once the sport of daredevils, skydiving now offers it existential thrills to grandmothers, pudgy geeks, and even the occasional college professor
The Forgotten Churchill
George Watson
The man who stared down Hitler also helped create the modern welfare state
Plucked from the Grave
Debra Gwartney
The first female missionary to cross the Continental Divide came to a gruesome end partly caused by her own zeal. What can we learn from her?
Poetry
Letting Go: Ellen Bryant Voigt
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Langdon Hammer
Four Poems
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Ellen Bryant Voigt
Keys
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Annie Finch
Two Poems
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Brian Doyle
An Opportunity
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Erica McAlpine
Arts
A Speck of Showmanship
Ernest B. Furgurson
Is that Pulix irritans pulling that carriage, or is someone just pulling our leg?
