Vol. 76 Nbr. 3, June 2007

Index

• History revisited.
• A New Theory of the Universe.
• When 2 + 2 = 5.
• Correction.
• On Gilgamesh.
• One Day in the Life.
• The Apologist.
• Chasing the blues away.
• Sic transit Gloria?
• I sing the body digital.
• Robo-nation.
• They can't take that away.
• Global pigeoning system.
• The new space race.
• Buddha's jigsaw.
• The mystery of Ales: the argument that Alger Hiss was a WWII-era Soviet asset is flawed. New evidence points to someone else.
• Love on campus: why we should understand, and even encourage, a certain sort of erotic intensity between student and professor.
• Remember statecraft? What diplomacy can do, and why we need it more than ever.
• Staging.
• R & R.
• Gazing into the Abyss: the sudden appearance of love and the galvanizing prospect of death lead a young poet back to poetry and a 'hope toward God'.
• 'Mem, mem, mem': after a stroke, a prolific novelist struggles to say how the mental world of aphasia looks and feels.
• Between two worlds: the familiar story of Pocahontas was mirrored by that of a young Englishman given as a hostage to her father.
• Fragments of paradise: gardens like those of Friedrich II at Sanssouci help us to read the world.
• The House at Belle Fontaine.
• Tamarack State.
• Arthur of Camelot: remembering Arthur Schlesinger, a knight-errant with typewriter.
• The short reign of Fred Allen: Jack Benny's comic rival starred in programs that prefigured 'Weekend Update,' 'News of the Weird,' and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
• The whirling princess: how a little rich girl known as Pussy Jones became Edith Wharton, writing her way into the aristocracy of American letters.
• The heroic and the crass: case studies in American presidential backbone.
• Wide world: an essayist and activist who makes eloquent connections.
• The meandering naturalist.
• Magical mind.
• Dismantling the dream.
• A seductive spectacle: the languid bazaar of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet still beckons 50 years later.
• Scoundrels.
• Privacy revealed.