Summer 2008

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ARTICLES

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers

The End of the Black American Narrative

A new century calls for new stories grounded in the present, leaving behind the painful history of slavery and its consequences

Intimacy

Revisiting the gritty Roman neighborhood of his youth, a writer discovers a world of his own invention

Pullovers

Knitting a new life in America after a mother’s suicide, long ago in Japan

Her Own Society

When Emily Dickinson and her radical friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson met for the first time

The Bout

When George Plimpton, the boyish editor of The Paris Review, went three rounds with the light-heavyweight champion of the world

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers

The End of the Black American Narrative

A new century calls for new stories grounded in the present, leaving behind the painful history of slavery and its consequences

Intimacy

Revisiting the gritty Roman neighborhood of his youth, a writer discovers a world of his own invention

Pullovers

Knitting a new life in America after a mother’s suicide, long ago in Japan

Her Own Society

When Emily Dickinson and her radical friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson met for the first time

The Bout

When George Plimpton, the boyish editor of The Paris Review, went three rounds with the light-heavyweight champion of the world

Buoyancy

In literature, as in life, the art of swimming isn’t hard to master

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DEPARTMENTS

editor's note

tuning up

A Most Interesting Young Man

Was that Bob Dylan my sister met on a weir above Woodstock?

poetry

Confluences of Sound and Sense

Kay Ryan’s idiosyncratic approach to the commonplace

fiction

commonplace book

Book essay

The Grasshopper and His Space Odyssey

A scientist remembers the celebrated science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke

book reviews

Over There

A pugnacious public intellectual looks to Europe for his ideal

Democracy in Three Dimensions?

How the nation’s capital rose from a fetid forest on the backs of slaves

Ireland Revised

Where the Celtic Tiger came from, and where it has gone

Repatriating Art

A museum director examines the controversy over whether nations own their cultural artifacts