Winter 2006 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
Replacements
Robert Wilson
Letters
Response to Our Autumn Issue
Our readers
Letters From …
Mae La: An Eden with Barbed Wire
David Summers
Commonplace Book
Mountains
André Bernard
Book Reviews
A Man in It
Garry Wills
Darwin's Greatest Discovery
Francisco J. Ayala
A Cold Eye on the Cold War
Stephen J. Whifield
Earthman
Sarah L. Courteau
Reading Lists
Andrew Starner
Eminent Domain
Daniel Reid
Articles
The Dispossessed
William Deresiewicz
First we stopped noticing members of the working class, and now we're convinced they don’t exist
The New Anti-Semitism
Bernard Lewis
First religion, then race, then what?
My Holocaust Problem
Arthur Krystal
If we cannot speak of it—though speak of it we must—how do we remember what happened to the Jews of Europe?
Palladio in the Rough
Witold Rybczynski
A South Carolinian builds classical revival houses that really look old
Fadeaway Jumper
Mark Edmundson
A Sunday-afternoon player of a certain age says his farewell to basketball
Flat Time
Robert Finch
The ebb and flow of life in a Newfoundland fishing village
Buster Brown's America
Jiri Wyatt
How a Jew from Slovakia became a Catholic from Manhattan, then fell from grace and turned into a real American
A Visit to Esperantoland
Arika Okrent
The natives want you to learn their invented language as a step toward world harmony. Who are these people?
The Lieutenant
Brian Doyle
Inept in the art of warfare, this volunteer soldier succeeded on a different field
Findings: Honestly, Abe!
Ted Widmer
Fiction
Poetry
The Bomb in the Sanctuary
Langdon Hammer
Michael Longley, an Ulsterman in Arcadia
Seven Poems
Michael Longley
Boy Shooting at a Statue
Billy Collins
Arts
Brand-New Cities
Wayne Curtis
Frank Gehry's Bilbao Effect looks a lot like 1960s-style urban renewal
Lenny's Little Chats
Sudip Bose
Envy the children who learned music from the maestro, Leonard Bernstein
The One Who Went Before
Elizabeth Alexander
Remembering the playwright August Wilson, 1945-2005
E-newsletter
THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
Kodachrome Eden
By James Santel
We all had that first National Geographic sighting growing up: spotting the yellow border out of the corner of an eye and haphazardly flipping through the pages while waiting at the dentist, lounging at our grandparents’s, helping to clean out the attic. Then, struck by the Kodachrome colors, we would stop to peer closer at a vivid photograph from a far-flung adventure and wish we had been there to experience such beauty firsthand. Read James Santel’s article from the Spring 2013 issue as he rhapsodizes on the dreamlike quality of National Geographic’s words and pictures.
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