Winter 2014 Issue

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Letters From …
Letter from Benghazi: After the Revolution
Clare Morgana Gillis
Works in Progress
Strings Attached
Chloe Taft
Big Time
Tom Bentley
From Superman to Everyman
Vicki Valosik
Once and Future Warfare
Ian Morris
Plum Local
Leah Jacobs
More Than Meets the Eye
Emily Ochoa
Here’s Looking at You
Sasha Ingber
Tuning Up
Night Train to Gijón
Clellan Coe
Commonplace Book
Humility
Anne Matthews
Book Essay
The Novels Don’t Change, But We Do

Wendy Smith
Book Reviews
The Best Course
Michael Dirda
The After-War
Neil Shea
Dean of Satire
George O’Brien
Abolition Gone Wrong
Fergus M. Bordewich
Ministry of Talent
Ernest B. Furgurson
Back Talk
Lingua Americana
Ralph Keyes
Articles
Where Are the People?
Jim Hinch
Evangelical Christianity in America is losing its power—what happened to Orange County’s Crystal Cathedral shows why
My Kingdom for a Wave
Amitai Etzioni
If your life as a public intellectual takes you to the highest crests, be prepared for the troughs that follow
My Friend Melanie Has Breast Cancer
Anna Blackmon Moore
How it might have happened, and why we are looking in the wrong places to prevent similar cases
Homeless in the City
Theodore Walther
A writer describes the decade he has spent living on the streets
Our Farm, My Inspiration
Maxine Kumin
How a weekend getaway became a poet’s muse
Tutors
Paul West
My many mentors at Oxford, from Lincoln College to All Souls, linger like spirits in the mind
Eric Rohmer and Me
André Aciman
What a classic film from the French new wave taught me about the illusions of my youth
Arts
Incident at Mittersill
Sudip Bose
A new opera explores the mysterious death of the composer Anton Webern