
Articles
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
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
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
Poetry Stand
How a precocious group of high school poets learned to provide verse on demand
by Diana Goetsch
Apologies All Around
Today's tendency to make amends for the crimes of history raises the question: where do we stop?
by Gorman Beauchamp
Departments
Editor's Note
Tuning Up
Fiction
The Nursery
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
Commonplace Book
Book Reviews
The Genius and Her Sanctuary
Pivotal moments in the pairing of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
Catharine R. Stimpson
The Early End of Consensus
Bitter partisanship began soon after George Washington left the scene
Jill Ogline
Swept Away
When Géricault painted The Raft of the Medusa, he immersed himself in his subject’s horrors
Anthony Brandt
Nurtural Intelligence
The discoverer of the Flynn effect claims that genes control IQ less than you’d expect