Spring 2017 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
Grace
Robert Wilson
Letters
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Our readers
Letters From …
Athens: Rocking the Cradle of Democracy
John Psaropoulos
Works in Progress
Boom and Bust
Eli Reichman
A More Mindful Economy
Clair Brown
Spheres of Influence
Elyse Graham
Alaska’s Close-Up
Noelani Kirschner
The Virtual Forest
Vanessa Schipani
Fast Food’s Urban Invasion
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Tuning Up
(Full Disclosure)
Ann Beattie
Commonplace Book
Spring 2017
Anne Matthews
Book Essay
Found in Translation
Piotr Florczyk
Book Reviews
More Than Human
Michael Shermer
Robocops and Robbers
Jill Leovy
One Nation Under God
Dennis Covington
“Time to Plant Tears”
Dana Gioia
Taking Old Abe to Task
David S. Reynolds
Travels in Literary Time
Jay Parini
American Places
Skagit Valley, Washington
Christine Sharp
Articles
A Brief History of Secession
Richard Striner
Why Calexit might not be as crazy as you think
On Political Correctness
William Deresiewicz
Power, class, and the new campus religion
Interstates
Emily Bernard
How My Italian-American husband ate his way into the good graces of my African-American family
The Cloistered Books of Peru
Helen Hazen
A convent in the Andes is home to a treasure trove of rare, and possibly unique, early volumes
Keeping Faith
Mark Lane
After a loss from which there is no recovery, I turned to books—not for solace or forgetting, but simply to survive
The Ultimate Pawn Sacrifice
Jay Neugeboren
My brother’s life mirrored that of Bobby Fischer, the deeply troubled chess master
Arts
Scenes from a Lost World
Robert Campbell
Remember when urban life was gritty and bleak, but also poetic?
Some Perspective, Please
Lincoln Perry
Why is the age-old technique of representing three dimensions so maligned today?
E-newsletter
THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
Night Train to Gijón
By Clellan Coe
Slogging up the East Coast on Amtrak is one thing; taking a romantic night ride in a sleeper car is a completely different kind of pleasure. If you haven’t experienced such a journey (or especially if you have), read about Clellan Coe’s trip through northern Spain to meet her boyfriend’s family. A stop at a village station along the way leads to a late-night meal and a new appreciation for the intricacies of language.
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