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ARTICLES
The Mystery of Ales
The argument that Alger Hiss was a WWII-era Soviet asset is flawed. New evidence points to someone else
By Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya
The Mystery of Ales (Expanded Version)
The argument that Alger Hiss was a WWII-era Soviet asset is flawed. New evidence points to someone else
By Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya
Love on Campus
Why we should understand, and even encourage, a certain sort of erotic intensity between student and professor
By William Deresiewicz
Gazing Into the Abyss
The sudden appearance of love and the galvanizing prospect of death lead a young poet back to poetry and a “hope toward God”
By Christian Wiman
‘Mem, Mem, Mem’
After a stroke, a prolific novelist struggles to say how the mental world of aphasia looks and feels
By Paul West
The Mystery of Ales
The argument that Alger Hiss was a WWII-era Soviet asset is flawed. New evidence points to someone else
By Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya
The Mystery of Ales (Expanded Version)
The argument that Alger Hiss was a WWII-era Soviet asset is flawed. New evidence points to someone else
By Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya
Love on Campus
Why we should understand, and even encourage, a certain sort of erotic intensity between student and professor
By William Deresiewicz
Gazing Into the Abyss
The sudden appearance of love and the galvanizing prospect of death lead a young poet back to poetry and a “hope toward God”
By Christian Wiman
‘Mem, Mem, Mem’
After a stroke, a prolific novelist struggles to say how the mental world of aphasia looks and feels
By Paul West
Between Two Worlds
The familar story of Pocahontas was mirrored by that of a young Englishman given as a hostage to her father
By Christopher Clausen
Fragments of Paradise
Gardens like those of Friedrich II at Sanssouci help us to read the world
By Alberto Manguel
DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
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poetry
anniversaries
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fiction
commonplace book
Book essay
A Seductive Spectacle
The languid bazaar of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet still beckons 50 years later
By Charles Trueheart
book reviews
The Whirling Princess
How a little rich girl known as Pussy Jones became Edith Wharton, writing her way into the aristocracy of American letters