Spring 2014 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
On the Farm
Robert Wilson
Letters
Responses to our Winter 2014 Issue
Our readers
Letters From …
Letter from Maasailand: Seeds of Change
David McDannald
Works in Progress
Big Man in Tiny Houses
Tom Bentley
Stellar Debate
Jennifer Henderson
The Sobering Cyber Future
P. W. Singer and Allan Friedman
Cure for Helmet Hair?
Vicki Valosik
Eight Hours a Slave
Chloe Taft
Very Cold Storage
Emily Ochoa
Secrets of Dragonflies
Sasha Ingber
Tuning Up
The Ginger Boy
Brian Doyle
Commonplace Book
Treachery
Anne Matthews
Book Essay
Looking Back, Warily, But With Affection
David Guterson
Book Reviews
The Bard of Suburbia
Robert Wilson
19th Nervous Breakdown
Gary Greenberg
A Danger to Ourselves
Mary Beth Saffo
Whores de Combat
Charles Trueheart
The Fabulist
Robert Zaretsky
Ready to Be Free
Louis P. Masur
An Irascible Artist
Eleanor Jones Harvey
Back Talk
Pardon My French
Ralph Keyes
Articles
Loving Animals to Death
James McWilliams
How can we raise them humanely and then butcher them?
What Killed My Sister?
Priscilla Long
The answer—schizophrenia—only leads to more perplexing questions
On Loneliness
Edward Hoagland
We value our solitude until it pinches
The Making of PoBiz Farm
Maxine Kumin
After it became our permanent home, we overfilled it with overloved horses and dogs
The Presence of Absence
Bethany Vaccaro
Our losses give vitality to our lives
A Whole Day Nearer Now
Doris Grumbach
But all life’s passion not quite spent
Poetry
Plangent Encounters
Langdon Hammer
Two Poems
Charles Baudelaire
Translated by David Lehman
Two Poems
David Lehman
Sky Ghazaal
Robin Magowan
Arts
Realism With a Heart
Richard Locke
The Dardenne brothers bring an idiosyncratic sympathy to their portrayals of Belgian lowlifes
E-newsletter
THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
Confluences
By Jennifer Sinor
There was no way to communicate with the rest of the world once Jerry and his brother started their journey down the Alatna River in northern Alaska. They would have to paddle for days to reach a satellite phone 60 miles downstream. Jennifer Sinor tells the story of the two men—her uncle and father—in our Winter 2008 issue. Only her dad made it back alive. Later, while reading her father’s journal, Sinor felt grief and joy. At almost the same moment that her uncle died, her son was conceived, “so that for the briefest moment,” she writes, “the past, present, and future stood together and recognized one another.”
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We ask our favorite writers about their favorite titles
The Daily Scholar Archives
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Online Essays
Works you won’t find in print, from the likes of Harold Holzer, Wendy Smith, and Neil Shea
The Beautiful Race
By Colin O’Brien
Colin O’Brien’s exploration of Italy’s greatest cycling event
