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Autumn 2014
Instant Gratification

Cover Story

Instant Gratification

As the economy gets ever better at satisfying our immediate, self-serving needs, who is minding the future?

by Paul Roberts

Articles

Why Science Is Not Enough

Why Science Is Not Enough

Only through our imagination can we know the world

by John Lukacs
Going Haywire

Going Haywire

Delusions can occur in perfectly “normal” people

by Richard Restak
Frankfurt, Farewell

Frankfurt, Farewell

A family escaped the Nazis in 1939, finding refuge in America, but its hardships were far from over

by Werner Gundersheimer
Silences

Silences

A South African family of privilege kept its secrets

by Sheila Kohler
A Tale of War and Forgetting

A Tale of War and Forgetting

Rescuing the memory of a cataclysm

by Neil Shea

Departments

Editor's Note

The Violent Bear It Away

Robert Wilson

Letters

Responses to our Summer 2014 Issue

Our Readers

Letter From …

Letter From Mumbai: Intolerance

Letter From Mumbai: Intolerance

Murzban F. Shroff

Tuning Up

In the Courtyard

In the Courtyard

Vicki Valosik

Arts

Carnival of the Animals

Carnival of the Animals

Jan Morris

Rebuilding The Mack

Witold Rybczynski

Song of the Earth

Pico Iyer

Boy Wonder

Boy Wonder

Sudip Bose

Poetry

Four Poems

Ansel Elkins

Why Does a Tall Man Write Poetry?

Dick Allen

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Langdon Hammer

Works in Progress

Taken by Storm

Taken by Storm

Allen Freeman

Biofashionista

Biofashionista

Vicki Valosik

Lend Me Your (3-D Printed) Ear

Diane Ackerman

Where’s Miguel?

Where’s Miguel?

Emily Ochoa

Garbage In, Garbage Out

Garbage In, Garbage Out

Vicki Valosik

New Hope from Dope

Tom Bentley

The Day of the Luthier

Chloe Taft

Back Talk

E Pluribus Unum

Ralph Keyes

Fiction

The Way of the World

The Way of the World

Craig Nova

Commonplace Book

Defiance

Defiance

Anne Matthews

Book Essay

Last Works

Last Works

Every writer eventually faces the question: Is there anything left to say?

Roger Grenier

Book Reviews

Sound and Fury

Sound and Fury

The flawed, tragic hero whose music defined an age

Matthew Guerrieri
The Big Uneasy

The Big Uneasy

A city’s seamy side

Wayne Curtis
Solar Complexus

Solar Complexus

We may be alone after all

Owen Gingerich

Anything Goes

Prose for the people

Rachel Hadas
Our Beastly Friends

Our Beastly Friends

A literary walk on the wild side

Miranda Weiss
Frozen Hell

Frozen Hell

An expedition gone wrong

John Vaillant
The Deciders

The Deciders

Two presidents and their war

William S. McFeely
Taking Shots

Taking Shots

A powerful plea for vaccination

Harriet A. Washington