Articles
The Censor in the Mirror
It’s not only what the Chinese Propaganda Department does to artists, but what it makes artists do to their own work
by Ha Jin
The Torture Colony
In a remote part of Chile, an evil German evangelist built a utopia whose members helped the Pinochet regime perform its foulest deeds
by Bruce Falconer
Where Does American History Begin?
Mixing geography with invention, the first explorers and mapmakers made the New World a very hard place to pin down
by Ted Widmer
Something Called Terrorism
In a speech given at Harvard 22 years ago and never before published, Leonard Bernstein offered a warning that remains timely
by Leonard Bernstein
The New Old Way of Learning Languages
Now all but vanished, a once-popular system of reading Greek and Latin classics could revitalize modern teaching methods
by Ernest Blum
Departments
Editor's Note
Letter From …
Point of Departure
Commonplace Book
Book Essay
The Swiveling Light of Truth
Remembering Grace Paley and her wise, fierce, funny, sad, innovative short stories
Roberta Silman
Book Reviews
Immortality Gained
John Milton was not only a great poet, but also a great defender of liberty
Jay Parini
Copyright Wrongs
When technology makes an illegal act easy, should the law make that act legal?
Paul K. Saint-Amour
How Special a Relationship?
Whether T.R. needed Edward VII to establish the United States as a world power
Joshua Hawley
Potted History
Learning more about slave life in South Carolina from a legendary potter-poet
Scott Reynolds Nelson
Shaking Habit's House
Critic James Wood preaches a return to the realism of Flaubert