What We Got Wrong

How Arabs look at the self, their society, and their political institutions

Point and Shoot

How the Abu Ghraib images redefine photography

The Coming of the French

My life as an English professor

Response to Our Autumn Issue

The Software Wars

Why you can’t understand your computer

"I Can’t Believe I’m Doing It with Madame Bovary"

Learning to write musical comedy

In Praise of Flubs

The pursuit of perfection has taken all the personality out of recorded classical music

The Crooner and the Physicist

Jacques Brel and The New Yorker profile that never reached critical mass

The Industrial-Strength Humanist

J. Irwin Miller knew how to get things built

A Sturdy Man

Notes on a human symphony

Something New in the West

Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front

The Resistance Fighter as Philosopher

Remembering Vladimir Jankélévitch

Winter Sun

“The Vow” by Yuliya Musakovska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Lindsey Weber

Relationships that define us

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

In the Endless Arctic Light

A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

The Bears

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

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