Helping Doug
At a tent encampment in Oregon, one man struggles to survive as medical volunteers try to bring a measure of light to dark, uncertain days
By J. Malcolm Garcia
Helping Doug
At a tent encampment in Oregon, one man struggles to survive as medical volunteers try to bring a measure of light to dark, uncertain days
By J. Malcolm Garcia
ARTICLES
All Shall Be Well
My father’s experiences aboard a World War II bomber became the narrative of a life he could never have invented
By Karl Kirchwey
The Go-Between
One of America’s most celebrated women war correspondents walked a fine line between journalism and espionage
By Brooke Kroeger
Trading Places
In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks each made a film that bore hallmarks of the other’s work
By Dennis Drabelle
Second and Long
Why did James Whitehead—poet, fiction writer, and onetime college football player—fail to complete a successor to his celebrated first novel?
By Steve Yarbrough
Scrolling Through
Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road
By Gerald Howard
Blood-Blue Sky
How horseshoe crabs and ecological grief connect with the wonders of the human heart
By Kristin Idaszak
All Shall Be Well
My father’s experiences aboard a World War II bomber became the narrative of a life he could never have invented
By Karl Kirchwey
The Go-Between
One of America’s most celebrated women war correspondents walked a fine line between journalism and espionage
By Brooke Kroeger
Trading Places
In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock and Howard Hawks each made a film that bore hallmarks of the other’s work
By Dennis Drabelle
Second and Long
Why did James Whitehead—poet, fiction writer, and onetime college football player—fail to complete a successor to his celebrated first novel?
By Steve Yarbrough
Scrolling Through
Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road
By Gerald Howard
Blood-Blue Sky
How horseshoe crabs and ecological grief connect with the wonders of the human heart
By Kristin Idaszak
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DEPARTMENTS
tuning up
Gone Fishin’
Could two famous rivermen really have met their end while grappling giant fish in a Kansas river?
By Eric McHenry
Redemption Song
What the rehabilitation of Pete Rose says about American society today
By Eric Wills
A Visit to Epidaurus
When a play ends with a dismemberment, the effect on the audience can be transformative
By Rachel Shteir
A Room of Their Own
The guest room is more than just a place where visitors can crash
By Ann Beattie
poetry
anniversaries
fiction
Book essay
Too Alone in This World, Yet Not
A newly opened archive reveals further contradictions about a poet steeped in paradox
By Elena S. Danielson
book reviews
God on the Syllabus
A century after Bryan took on Darrow, battles over public school curricula rage on
By Sam Kean
