Winter 2010 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
Security Check
Robert Wilson
Letters
Response to Our Autumn Issue
Our readers
Letters From …
Rwanda: 'Our Big Mistake'
Sarah Kenyon Lischer
Works in Progress
Things to Come in the Arts and Sciences
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Allen Freeman
Tuning Up
Go-o-o-o, Lemmings!
Brian Doyle
Commonplace Book
Surprise
Anne Matthews
Point of Departure
Writing English as a Second Language
William Zinsser
Book Essay
Shylock, My Students, and Me
Paula Marantz Cohen
Book Reviews
Science Doubters
Natalie Angier
Laissez-Faire Run Amok
Ethan Fishman
Riffs and Raptures
Sarah L. Courteau
Wrestling the Moose
Miranda Weiss
The Tales Buildings Tell
Stanley Abercrombie
Through Fire and Flood
Jay Parini
Articles
My Brain on My Mind
Priscilla Long
The ABCs of the thrumming, plastic mystery that allows us to think, feel, and remember
The Stolen Election
Gelareh Asayesh
An expatriate Iranian writer travels her troubled homeland in the weeks after a disputed presidential vote
Seventy Years Later
John Lukacs
The Second World War destroyed Adolf Hitler, but his legacy is showing disturbing signs of life
Strange Matter
John Olson
The physics and poetics of the search for the God particle
Wrestling with Two Behemoths
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Ved Mehta
A longtime New Yorker, and New Yorker writer, gets the cold shoulder from powerful New York cultural institutions
Fiction
The Blue Birds Come Today
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Laura Furman
Burritoville
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Mark Jude Poirier
Poetry
Karl Kirchwey's Forge of Love
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Langdon Hammer
Four Poems
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Karl Kirchwey
The Study
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Rachel Hadas
Arts
Offbeat at the Apollo
Wendy Smith
Elvis Costello’s cable TV show, Spectacle, ranges across musical genres and centuries
