
Articles
My Brain on My Mind
The ABCs of the thrumming, plastic mystery that allows us to think, feel, and remember
by Priscilla Long
The Stolen Election
An expatriate Iranian writer travels her troubled homeland in the weeks after a disputed presidential vote
by Gelareh Asayesh
Seventy Years Later
The Second World War destroyed Adolf Hitler, but his legacy is showing disturbing signs of life
by John Lukacs
Wrestling with Two Behemoths
A longtime New Yorker, and New Yorker writer, gets the cold shoulder from powerful New York cultural institutions
by Ved Mehta
Departments
Editor's Note
Letter From …
Tuning Up
Works in Progress
Point of Departure
Commonplace Book
Book Essay

Shylock, My Students, and Me
What I’ve learned from 30 years of teaching The Merchant of Venice
Paula Marantz Cohen
Book Reviews
Wrestling the Moose
Jefferson debunked a French theory of natural history, launching American exceptionalism
Miranda Weiss
The Tales Buildings Tell
Architects can overwhelm their creations; time can make a hash of great visions
Stanley Abercrombie
Through Fire and Flood
Faulkner’s best fiction emerged from his willingness to face crises