
Articles
THE SCHOLAR AT 75: An Educated Guess
Who knew that mixing the intelligent and the idiosyncratic would yield a long life for a certain small quarterly?
by Ted Widmer
THE SCHOLAR AT 75: Postcards from the Past
Pressing questions and persistent vitality
by Richard E. Nicholls
Not Compassionate, Not Conservative
A political traditionalist critiques our pseudo-conservative president
by Ethan Fishman
Fear of Falling
Working in the mop-and-bucket brigade in college created the perspectives of a lifetime
by James McConkey
Glorious Dust
The posthumous masterwork of an influential black historian tells how slavery itself undermined the Confederacy
by Robert Roper
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Letter From …
Arts
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Langdon Hammer
Water Lilies
Peter Filkins
Nine Times Nine, on Awe
Marilyn Nelson
Netsuke
Caitriona O'Reilly
Forgetting
Robert Pinsky
Commonplace Book
Book Essay
Going Native
When American literature became good enough for Americans, what happened to the literary canon?
Morris Dickstein
Book Reviews
Pleasure out of Desperation
Thomas Eakins, yearning for the ideal in a materialistic age