Summer 2007 Issue

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

Not available online

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

Fiction

The House at Belle Fontaine

Lily Tuck

Tamarack State

Andrea Barrett

Poetry

Two Poems

Not available online

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