Winter 2014 Issue

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Letter from Benghazi: After the Revolution

Clare Morgana Gillis

Works in Progress

Night Train to Gijón

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Clellan Coe

Commonplace Book

The Novels Don’t Change, But We Do

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Wendy Smith

Book Reviews

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

Fiction

Handsome Boy

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Dennis McFarland

Poetry

Creative Paralysis

Langdon Hammer

The poetry of Louise Glück

Two Poems

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Louise Glück

Arts

Incident at Mittersill

Sudip Bose

A new opera explores the mysterious death of the composer Anton Webern

The Daily Scholar

How to Travel Without Seeing

By Andrés Neuman

This week, read an excerpt from the Argentinian novelist’s dispatches from Latin America

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

After yet another nuclear test in North Korea—the fifth and largest this year—life behind the Bamboo Curtain seems more inscrutable than ever. Eben Wood’s visit to Pyongyang, the seat of Kim Jong Un’s regime, offers a glimpse of life inside the Hermit Kingdom