ARTICLES
Twain Town, U.S.A.
Samuel Clemens is everywhere in Hannibal, Missouri, but is the story the town tells about its favorite son grounded in reality or myth?
By Ruth Franklin
Found in Translation
The act of rendering plays from Romanian to English has allowed me to discover my family’s past—and myself
By Amanda L. Andrei
What Remains
We may know that nothing lasts forever, but this knowledge doesn’t alleviate the loneliness of grief
By Jennifer Sinor
Thanatos Rising 
A 1930s correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud laid out each man’s views on war and peace
By George Makari
Our Versatile, Durable Pickup
The story of a vehicle that is many things to many people but is, above all, an American icon
By Witold Rybczynski
Once More in Triple Time
In Salzburg, the tourist hordes come for Mozart, but imagine an alternate city, one where a very different composer is venerated
By Erik Anderson
My Teacher
Through periods both fallow and rich, Lore Segal knew only one way to spend her days—by writing
By Jane Bernstein
Twain Town, U.S.A.
Samuel Clemens is everywhere in Hannibal, Missouri, but is the story the town tells about its favorite son grounded in reality or myth?
By Ruth Franklin
Found in Translation
The act of rendering plays from Romanian to English has allowed me to discover my family’s past—and myself
By Amanda L. Andrei
What Remains
We may know that nothing lasts forever, but this knowledge doesn’t alleviate the loneliness of grief
By Jennifer Sinor
Thanatos Rising
A 1930s correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud laid out each man’s views on war and peace
By George Makari
Our Versatile, Durable Pickup
The story of a vehicle that is many things to many people but is, above all, an American icon
By Witold Rybczynski
Once More in Triple Time
In Salzburg, the tourist hordes come for Mozart, but imagine an alternate city, one where a very different composer is venerated
By Erik Anderson
My Teacher
Through periods both fallow and rich, Lore Segal knew only one way to spend her days—by writing
By Jane Bernstein
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DEPARTMENTS
editor's note
tuning up
A Newer Species of Trouble
When the lines between natural and technological disasters become blurred— and ultimately erased
By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
A Night at the Bougainville Roxy
America’s post-Depression enthusiasm for movies extended to its theaters of war
By Elizabeth D. Samet
poetry
Against the Norm
Etymologies of disability and race in the verse of Suji Kwock Kim
By Langdon Hammer
Five Poems
Model Minority, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Close Captions, The Melancholy of Anatomy, Special Needs
By Suji Kwock Kim
commonplace book
Book essay
On the Trail with an Arkansas Traveler
Charles Portis looked past our national mythology to portray the real America
By Richard Tillinghast
book reviews
Canonical Contempt
Even in the 18th century, Edward Gibbon’s misogyny set him apart