The Guru of Athens

Can age-old philosophy lead the way to happiness?

Aristotle's Way by Edith Hall

Seven New Poems by Walt Whitman
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“Sometimes I Dream That I Am Not Walt Whitman,” “Let Them Say Whatever They Want,” “Returning to the Sea-Shore,” “I Hear It Is Charged Against Me,” “Like a Ghost I Returned,” and “Some Tuesdays I Go to Lisbon”

Launching the Greatest Fleet

How American war surplus helped build the world’s most successful merchant marine

Dianna Frid

Interwoven Text

Making Himself at Home

A German-born composer and his English oratorios

Handel in London by Jane Glover

Come to the Cabaret

Remembering Mabel Mercer, whose voice was intimate and wise

Descent Into the Underworld

An excerpt from “How Do the Dead Walk”

Responses to Our Autumn 2018 Issue

Voyages

The Portrait Master

Known for rendering others, a writer turns his attention inward

The Patch by John McPhee

The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apartby Nicholas Carr

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

Cudillero

“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

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