Domestic Insurrection

Rough Crossings: Britain, Slaves, and the American RevolutionBy Simon Schama / Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution By Joseph Glatthar and James Kirby Martin

Tomorrow Is Another Day

An Ethiopian student survives a brutal imprisonment by translating Gone with the Wind into his native tongue

Autumn 2006

Eclogues

Best Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer By Noel Perrin

Bearing Gifts

The Preacher’s Wife

The Mind-Brain Problem

Psychologist Jerome Kagan has always known that biology is only a partial solution

An Argument for Mind By Jerome Kagan

Worked Well with Others

Discovering the structure of DNA was not Francis Crick’s only important collaboration

Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code By Matt Ridley

Half-Brother to the World

The United States has been more like other nations than we like to think

A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History By Thomas Bender

African Renaissance?

Finding hope on a continent where many people see only despair

New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance By Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

Cats and Dogs

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Katie Heller Saltoun

Tenderness and grit

Magic Men

Aging Out

Many of us do not go gentle into that good night

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Ageby James Chappel

Braña Curuchu

Under a Spell Everlasting

Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain, published a century ago, tells of a world unable to free itself from the cataclysm of war

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