Autumn 2007

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ARTICLES

Wonder Bread

Come with us to a place called Brooklyn, where the stories are half-baked and their endings bland and soft

Unto Caesar

Religious groups that have allied themselves with politicians, and vice versa, have ignored at their peril the lessons of Roger Williams and U.S. history

The Trojan War

Now even some environmentalists are supporting the use of nuclear power to generate electricity. One man’s story suggests the industry can’t be trusted

Poetry Stand

How a precocious group of high school poets learned to provide verse on demand

Lady of the Lake

Writer Brenda Ueland and the story she never shared

Apologies All Around

Today's tendency to make amends for the crimes of history raises the question: where do we stop?

Findings: Amateurism

From the Spring 1976 issue of The Scholar

Wonder Bread

Come with us to a place called Brooklyn, where the stories are half-baked and their endings bland and soft

Unto Caesar

Religious groups that have allied themselves with politicians, and vice versa, have ignored at their peril the lessons of Roger Williams and U.S. history

The Trojan War

Now even some environmentalists are supporting the use of nuclear power to generate electricity. One man’s story suggests the industry can’t be trusted

Poetry Stand

How a precocious group of high school poets learned to provide verse on demand

Lady of the Lake

Writer Brenda Ueland and the story she never shared

Apologies All Around

Today's tendency to make amends for the crimes of history raises the question: where do we stop?

Findings: Amateurism

From the Spring 1976 issue of The Scholar

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

Inshallah

The war in Iraq might leave us a new word to match a new sense of our own limitations

poetry

Louise Glück’s Italy of the Mind

On a classical stage peopled by workers, wives, and lovers

fiction

commonplace book

book reviews

The Genius and Her Sanctuary

Pivotal moments in the pairing of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas

Atonality and Beyond

The century when composers and audiences parted company

The Early End of Consensus

Bitter partisanship began soon after George Washington left the scene

Swept Away

When Géricault painted The Raft of the Medusa, he immersed himself in his subject’s horrors

Nurtural Intelligence

The discoverer of the Flynn effect claims that genes control IQ less than you’d expect

Words and Music

Two ways of thinking about what our brains can do