Two Strangers, Three Stories

All the lonely people and where they come from

Shouldn’t There Be a Word … ?

The holes in our language and the never-ending search for words to fill them

The Idea of Bombay

Bollywood epitomized modernity for a boy in a distant province. As an adult, he sees a troubled city.

Henry James vs. the Robber Barons

Why Italian art should stay in England, where it belongs, and not fall into the hands of foreigners

Why Read George Eliot?

Her novels are just modern enough—and just old-fashioned enough, too

Spring 2006

Amman: The War Next Door

The New Anti-Semitism

First religion, then race, then what?

My Holocaust Problem

If we cannot speak of it—though speak of it we must—how do we remember what happened to the Jews of Europe?

Palladio in the Rough

A South Carolinian builds classical revival houses that really look old

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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