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ARTICLES
The Terminator Comes to Wall Street
How computer modeling worsened the financial crisis and what we ought to do about it
By Joseph Fuller
Purpose-Driven Life
Evolution does not rob life of meaning, but creates meaning. It also makes possible our own capacity for creativity.
By Brian Boyd
Second Chances, Social Forgiveness, and the Internet
We need the means, both technological and legal, to replace measures once woven into the fabric of communities
By Amitai Etzioni
The Potency of Breathless
At 50, Godard’s film still asks how something this bad can be so good
By Paula Marantz Cohen
The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln
The hatter Boston Corbett was celebrated as a hero for killing John Wilkes Booth. Fame and fortune did not follow, but madness did.
By Ernest B. Furgurson
Visions and Revisions
Writing On Writing Well and keeping it up-to-date for 35 years
By William Zinsser
Dawn of a Literary Friendship
In 1969 the writer Robert Phelps first wrote to the novelist James Salter. Here are the letters that forged a bond of two decades.
By John McIntyre
The Terminator Comes to Wall Street
How computer modeling worsened the financial crisis and what we ought to do about it
By Joseph Fuller
Purpose-Driven Life
Evolution does not rob life of meaning, but creates meaning. It also makes possible our own capacity for creativity.
By Brian Boyd
Second Chances, Social Forgiveness, and the Internet
We need the means, both technological and legal, to replace measures once woven into the fabric of communities
By Amitai Etzioni
The Potency of Breathless
At 50, Godard’s film still asks how something this bad can be so good
By Paula Marantz Cohen
The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln
The hatter Boston Corbett was celebrated as a hero for killing John Wilkes Booth. Fame and fortune did not follow, but madness did.
By Ernest B. Furgurson
Visions and Revisions
Writing On Writing Well and keeping it up-to-date for 35 years
By William Zinsser
Dawn of a Literary Friendship
In 1969 the writer Robert Phelps first wrote to the novelist James Salter. Here are the letters that forged a bond of two decades.
By John McIntyre
The Dowser Dilemma
How a town in Vermont found water it desperately needed and an explanation that was harder to swallow
By Kate Daloz
DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
poetry
fiction
commonplace book
Book essay
Literary Cubs, Canceling Out Each Other’s Reticence
Letters between Federal Writers’ Project cohorts Richard Wright and Nelson Algren depict a mutual admiration rare among young novelists
By David A. Taylor
book reviews