“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe by Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

Stuttgart: Continental Drifter

A Jew in the Northwest

Exile, ethnicity, and the search for the perfect futon

His Hour Upon the Stage

As a lifelong reader of Shakespeare’s plays, Lincoln had reservations about how they were presented

Fields Apart

Physics, past and future

The Infinity PuzzleBy Frank Close /Physics on the Fringe By Margaret Wertheim

St. Augustine and the Hall of Memory

Like the philosopher, my aunt kept house in her imagination, tending to the sensations and images of the past

Tom, Dick, and Pat

Sex and the Single Woman

Rediscovering the novels of Iris Owens

Reversal of Fortune

Sorting out contradictions in the work of Louis Sullivan, father of the skyscraper and innovator of beautiful ornament

Responses to Our Autumn 2011 Issue

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