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