Summer 2007

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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

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

Love on Campus

Why we should understand, and even encourage, a certain sort of erotic intensity between student and professor

Remember Statecraft?

What diplomacy can do and why we need it more than ever

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”

‘Mem, Mem, Mem’

After a stroke, a prolific novelist struggles to say how the mental world of aphasia looks and feels

The Mystery of Ales

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)

The argument that Alger Hiss was a WWII-era Soviet asset is flawed. New evidence points to someone else

Love on Campus

Why we should understand, and even encourage, a certain sort of erotic intensity between student and professor

Remember Statecraft?

What diplomacy can do and why we need it more than ever

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”

‘Mem, Mem, Mem’

After a stroke, a prolific novelist struggles to say how the mental world of aphasia looks and feels

Between Two Worlds

The familar story of Pocahontas was mirrored by that of a young Englishman given as a hostage to her father

Fragments of Paradise

Gardens like those of Friedrich II at Sanssouci help us to read the world

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

Book essay

A Seductive Spectacle

The languid bazaar of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet still beckons 50 years later

book reviews

The Heroic and the Crass

Case studies in American presidential backbone

The Whirling Princess

How a little rich girl known as Pussy Jones became Edith Wharton, writing her way into the aristocracy of American letters

Wide World

An essayist and activist who makes eloquent connections

Magical Mind

Albert Einstein's life