Winter 2012 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
Printing Money
Robert Wilson
Letters From …
Stuttgart: Continental Drifter
Olufemi Terry
Tuning Up
Tuning Up: Mrs. Simmons, of Australia, Would Like You to Know
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Brian Doyle and Pico Iyer
Commonplace Book
Fear
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Anne Matthews
Point of Departure
The Grammarian Was a He
Jessica Love
Book Essay
Sex and the Single Woman
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Lisa Zeidner
Book Reviews
Big Thinker
James Gibney
The Nature of Things
Sissela Bok
Irregular Guy
William Howarth
Memento Mori
Britt Peterson
Fields Apart
Sam Kean
Virtual Vigilantes
Rachel Hartigan Shea
Identity Crisis
Marshall Poe
Articles
How to Pay for What We Need
Richard Striner
Congress could create money, as it did during the Civil War, funding public projects that shock the economy back to life
The Gravity of Falling
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Edward Hoagland
Having hurtled through the American century, we are distracted and confused. But can we find our way again?
A Jew in the Northwest
William Deresiewicz
Exile, ethnicity, and the search for the perfect futon
His Hour Upon the Stage
Douglas L. Wilson
As a lifelong reader of Shakespeare’s plays, Lincoln had reservations about how they were presented
St. Augustine and the Hall of Memory
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Greta Austin
Like the philosopher, my aunt kept house in her imagination, tending to the sensations and images of the past
The Witch Temple of Mehandipur
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Edward Hower
To an Indian town the possessed come in droves, their families desperate to be rid of the evil that curses them
Poetry
Hearing Mandelstam
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Langdon Hammer
Five Poems
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Osip Mandelstam
Translations by Christian Wiman
Arts
Reversal of Fortune
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James Trilling
Sorting out contradictions in the work of Louis Sullivan, father of the skyscraper and innovator of beautiful ornament
