Cover Story
Affirmative Inaction
Opposition to affirmative action has drastically reduced minority enrollment at public universities; private institutions have the power and the responsibility to reverse the trend
by William M. Chace
Articles
Unauthorized, But Not Untrue
The real story of a biographer in a celebrity culture of public denials, media timidity, and legal threats
by Kitty Kelley
Empathy and Other Mysteries
Neuroscientists are discovering things about the brain that answer questions philosophers have been asking for centuries
by Richard Restak
To Accept What Cannot Be Helped
At 80, a woman with a fatal disease knows she doesn't want to die in the hospital and discovers, with her family, what that really means
by Ann Hulbert
The Seduction
After years of favoring the endurance-test approach to teaching literature, a professor focuses on how to make books spark to life for her students
by Paula Marantz Cohen
The Passionate Encounter
A noted midcentury critic has much to say in his journal about his fellow writers and the literary world they shared
by Alfred Kazin
Reassessing Rossellini
Restoration of Rome Open city, the director’s masterpiece, prompts a look at why he later retreated from the neorealism it introduced
