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ARTICLES

How to Pay for What We Need

Congress could create money, as it did during the Civil War, funding public projects that shock the economy back to life

The Gravity of Falling

Having hurtled through the American century, we are distracted and confused. But can we find our way again?

A Jew in the Northwest

Exile, ethnicity, and the search for the perfect futon

His Hour Upon the Stage

As a lifelong reader of Shakespeare’s plays, Lincoln had reservations about how they were presented

St. Augustine and the Hall of Memory

Like the philosopher, my aunt kept house in her imagination, tending to the sensations and images of the past

The Witch Temple of Mehandipur

To an Indian town the possessed come in droves, their families desperate to be rid of the evil that curses them

How to Pay for What We Need

Congress could create money, as it did during the Civil War, funding public projects that shock the economy back to life

The Gravity of Falling

Having hurtled through the American century, we are distracted and confused. But can we find our way again?

A Jew in the Northwest

Exile, ethnicity, and the search for the perfect futon

His Hour Upon the Stage

As a lifelong reader of Shakespeare’s plays, Lincoln had reservations about how they were presented

St. Augustine and the Hall of Memory

Like the philosopher, my aunt kept house in her imagination, tending to the sensations and images of the past

The Witch Temple of Mehandipur

To an Indian town the possessed come in droves, their families desperate to be rid of the evil that curses them

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DEPARTMENTS

poetry

Five Poems

Translations by Christian Wiman

fiction

S. faux

The metamorphosis of an unusual love

commonplace book

Book essay

Sex and the Single Woman

Rediscovering the novels of Iris Owens

book reviews

Big Thinker

The diplomat who argued for “containment”—and lived to regret it

The Nature of Things

An ancient poem’s appeal

Irregular Guy

The sage of Baker Street

Memento Mori

A mother’s grief

Fields Apart

Physics, past and future

Virtual Vigilantes

A tale of crime online

Identity Crisis

Who was the real Tolstoy?