Cover Story
The Decline of the English Department
How it happened and what could be done to reverse it
by William M. Chace
Articles
The Doctor Is IN
At 88, Aaron Beck is now revered for an approach to psychotherapy that pushed Freudian analysis aside
by Daniel B. Smith
Notes from the Earth
Running Yangtze rapids, following Afghan herdsmen, four-wheeling Australia’s Jack Hills—intimate contacts with natural landscapes
by Barry Lopez
Armchair Travelers
The Renaissance writers and humanists Petrarch and Boccaccio turned to geography to understand the works of antiquity
by Toby Lester
Mother Country
A daughter examines a life played out in romantic defiance of bad fortune
by Evelyn Toynton
Departments
Editor's Note
Letter From …
Tuning Up
Works in Progress
Point of Departure
Commonplace Book
Book Essay
Living on $500,000 a Year
What F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns reveal about his life and times
William J. Quirk
Book Reviews
Art in the Time of War
A prescient and courageous few safeguarded Italy’s patrimony
Susannah Rutherglen
The Common Good
The case for a standardized curriculum for all American children