Summer 2007 Issue

Departments
Editor's Note
History Revisited
Robert Wilson
Letters
Response to Our Spring Issue
Our readers
Letters From …
New Orleans: Chasing the Blues Away
Lawrence N. Powell
Commonplace Book
Scoundrels
André Bernard
Book Essay
A Seductive Spectacle
Charles Trueheart
Book Reviews
The Whirling Princess
Sandra M. Gilbert
The Heroic and the Crass
Gary Hart
Wide World
Sarah Fay
The Meandering Naturalist
William Howarth
Magical Mind
Stephen Petranek
Dismantling the Dream
Sandra Beasley
Articles
The Mystery of Ales
Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya
The argument that Alger Hiss was a WWII-era Soviet asset is flawed. New evidence points to someone else
The Mystery of Ales (Expanded Version)
Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya
The argument that Alger Hiss was a WWII-era Soviet asset is flawed. New evidence points to someone else
Love on Campus
William Deresiewicz
Why we should understand, and even encourage, a certain sort of erotic intensity between student and professor
Remember Statecraft?
Dennis Ross
What diplomacy can do and why we need it more than ever
Gazing Into the Abyss
Christian Wiman
The sudden appearance of love and the galvanizing prospect of death lead a young poet back to poetry and a “hope toward God”
‘Mem, Mem, Mem’
Paul West
After a stroke, a prolific novelist struggles to say how the mental world of aphasia looks and feels
Between Two Worlds
Christopher Clausen
The familar story of Pocahontas was mirrored by that of a young Englishman given as a hostage to her father
Fragments of Paradise

Alberto Manguel
Gardens like those of Friedrich II at Sanssouci help us to read the world
Findings: Privacy Revealed
Richard E. Nicholls
From the Archives
Poetry
Two Poems

David Sofield
Arts
Arthur of Camelot
Ted Widmer
Remembering Arthur Schlesinger, a knight-errant with typewriter
The Short Reign of Fred Allen
Dennis Drabelle
Jack Benny's comic rival starred in a program refiguring "Weekend Update" and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart