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
E-newsletter
How to Travel Without Seeing
By Andrés Neuman
This week, read an excerpt from the Argentinian novelist’s dispatches from Latin America
THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
Capital of Willows
By Eben Wood
After yet another nuclear test in North Korea—the fifth and largest this year—life behind the Bamboo Curtain seems more inscrutable than ever. Eben Wood’s visit to Pyongyang, the seat of Kim Jong Un’s regime, offers a glimpse of life inside the Hermit Kingdom
WISE TO THE WORDS
EDITORS’ PICKS
14 Novels of Love Gone Wrong
By Our Editors
Relationships doomed, damned, or otherwise disappointing
Ten Tales for Winter
By Our Editors
These stories and a warm blanket will get you through the cold
Winter Classical Music
By Sudip Bose
Ten pieces to warm your ears
A Literary Home for the Holidays
By Our Editors
Twelve books about family
Spooktacular Books
By Our Editors
Tales of the monstrous and bizarre
Thirteen for Halloween
By Michael Dirda
Even more terror-ific stories
Neglected Books Revisited
By Stephanie Bastek
What ever happened to the most neglected books of 1970?
Ten Worst Opening Lines
By Our Editors
Ten Neglected Classics
By Our Editors
Oft-forgotten books worthy of your acquaintance
List, List, O List!
By Sandra M. Gilbert
A Response to David Handlin’s “One Hundred Best American Novels”
One Hundred Best American Novels 1770 to 1985 (a draft)
By David Handlin
A reading enthusiast’s list
The Best of The Bard
By Our Editors
Our favorite passages from Shakespeare
Ten Best Sentences
By Our Editors
