Words and Music
Two ways of thinking about what our brains can do
By Jennifer Michael Hecht Saturday, September 1, 2007
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human NatureBy Steven Pinker / Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain By Oliver Sacks
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
By William Nichols Saturday, September 1, 2007
Poetry Stand
How a precocious group of high school poets learned to provide verse on demand
By Diana Goetsch Saturday, September 1, 2007
Louise Glück’s Italy of the Mind
On a classical stage peopled by workers, wives, and lovers
By Langdon Hammer Saturday, September 1, 2007
Lady of the Lake
Writer Brenda Ueland and the story she never shared
By Alice Kaplan Saturday, September 1, 2007
Apologies All Around
Today’s tendency to make amends for the crimes of history raises the question: where do we stop?
By Gorman Beauchamp Saturday, September 1, 2007
Findings: Amateurism
From the Spring 1976 issue of The Scholar
By William Haley Saturday, September 1, 2007
Letter from Cambodia: At Last, a Tribunal for Khmer Rouge Atrocities
By Dustin Roasa Saturday, September 1, 2007
Good Thing Going
Stephen Sondheim only looks better with time
By Wendy Smith Saturday, September 1, 2007
Wonder Bread
Come with us to a place called Brooklyn, where the stories are half-baked and their endings bland and soft
By Melvin Jules Bukiet Saturday, September 1, 2007
The Genius and Her Sanctuary
Pivotal moments in the pairing of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
By Catharine R. Stimpson Saturday, September 1, 2007
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice By Janet Malcolm
Atonality and Beyond
The century when composers and audiences parted company
By Sudip Bose Saturday, September 1, 2007
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century By Alex Ross, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The Early End of Consensus
Bitter partisanship began soon after George Washington left the scene
By Jill Ogline Saturday, September 1, 2007
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign By Edward J. Larson
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
By Ethan Fishman Saturday, September 1, 2007
Swept Away
When Géricault painted The Raft of the Medusa, he immersed himself in his subject’s horrors
By Anthony Brandt Saturday, September 1, 2007
The Wreck of the Medusa By Jonathan Miles
Nurtural Intelligence
The discoverer of the Flynn effect claims that genes control IQ less than you’d expect
By Richard Restak Saturday, September 1, 2007
What Is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect By James R. Flynn
