Winter 2007 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
A Walk Around the Block
Robert Wilson
Letters
Response to Our Autumn Issue
Our readers
Letters From …
Istanbul: The Group
Suzanne Scanlon
Works in Progress
Things to Come in the Arts and Sciences
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Sandra Beasley
Commonplace Book
Celebrations
André Bernard
Book Essay
Going Native
Morris Dickstein
Book Reviews
The Historical Present
A. E. Stallings
Pleasure out of Desperation
Brenda Wineapple
Organized Violence
Charles Trueheart
Poised Between the Ancient and the New
Benjamin Balint
What if Nature Had Been Thrifty?
Daniel Reid
Articles
THE SCHOLAR AT 75: An Educated Guess
Ted Widmer
Who knew that mixing the intelligent and the idiosyncratic would yield a long life for a certain small quarterly?
THE SCHOLAR AT 75: Postcards from the Past
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Richard E. Nicholls
Pressing questions and persistent vitality
Not Compassionate, Not Conservative
Ethan Fishman
A political traditionalist critiques our pseudo-conservative president
Scooter and Me
Nick Bromell
Professing liberal doubt in an age of fundamentalist fervor
Fear of Falling
James McConkey
Working in the mop-and-bucket brigade in college created the perspectives of a lifetime
Glorious Dust
Robert Roper
The posthumous masterwork of an influential black historian tells how slavery itself undermined the Confederacy
Fired
Emily Bernard
Can a friendship really end for no good reason?
Findings: Let the Parties Begin
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Barbara B. Oberg
Poetry
Conflict and Culture
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Langdon Hammer
Water Lilies
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Peter Filkins
Claude Monet, 1917
Nine Times Nine, on Awe
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Marilyn Nelson
Netsuke
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Caitriona OReilly
Forgetting
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Robert Pinsky
Arts
The Ballad in the Street
Alan Trachtenberg
Listening for the muffled strains of a national culture
The Edgy Optimist
Gene Santoro
At 76, saxist Sonny Rollins is still on top of his game
When Maestros Were Maestros
Janet Frank
Innovator, mentor, tyrant, Leopold Stokowski brought real joy to music making
