The Edgy Optimist
At 76, saxist Sonny Rollins is still on top of his game
By Gene Santoro Friday, December 1, 2006
When Maestros Were Maestros
Innovator, mentor, tyrant, Leopold Stokowski brought real joy to music making
By Janet Frank Friday, December 1, 2006
The Historical Present
Robert Fagle’s bold solutions to the problem of Virgil
By A. E. Stallings Friday, December 1, 2006
The Aeneid By Virgil, translated by Robert Fagles
Pleasure out of Desperation
Thomas Eakins, yearning for the ideal in a materialistic age
By Brenda Wineapple Friday, December 1, 2006
Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins By William S. McFeely
Organized Violence
In the last century, where did warfare end and genocide begin?
By Charles Trueheart Friday, December 1, 2006
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West By Niall Ferguson
THE SCHOLAR AT 75: An Educated Guess
Who knew that mixing the intelligent and the idiosyncratic would yield a long life for a certain small quarterly?
By Ted Widmer Friday, December 1, 2006
THE SCHOLAR AT 75: Postcards from the Past
Pressing questions and persistent vitality
By Richard E. Nicholls Friday, December 1, 2006
Not Compassionate, Not Conservative
A political traditionalist critiques our pseudo-conservative president
By Ethan Fishman Friday, December 1, 2006
Scooter and Me
Professing liberal doubt in an age of fundamentalist fervor
By Nick Bromell Friday, December 1, 2006
Fear of Falling
Working in the mop-and-bucket brigade in college created the perspectives of a lifetime
By James McConkey Friday, December 1, 2006
Glorious Dust
The posthumous masterwork of an influential black historian tells how slavery itself undermined the Confederacy
By Robert Roper Friday, December 1, 2006
The Ballad in the Street
Listening for the muffled strains of a national culture
By Alan Trachtenberg Friday, December 1, 2006
