Vol. 78 Nbr. 1, January 2009
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Index
- Two cents.
- Artists & models.
- Modified interlinear.
- Supreme or better.
- Flat wrong.
- Stuck in 1986.
- Who wood have guessed?
- Would you settle for mean?
- Globalization on steroids.
- On the road.
- Small steps, giant leaps.
- Art imitates art.
- Incredible husks.
- Master masticator.
- HD 11964 d by any other name: what to call the planets we find beyond our solar system?
- Putting man before Descartes: human knowledge is neither objective nor subjective. It is personal and participant--which places us at the center of the universe.
- The future of the American frontier: can one of our most enduring national myths, much in evidence in the recent presidential campaign, be reinvented yet again?
- Affirmative action and after: now is the time to reconsider a policy that must eventually change. But simply replacing race with class isn't the solution.
- Spies among us: military snooping on civilians, which escalated in the turbulent '60s, never entirely went away and is back again on a much larger scale.
- Between two worlds: Rosanna Warren's midlife revelations of the real and the fantastic.
- Ghost in a Red Hat.
- Aubade.
- After.
- Ocular.
- A country for old men: having reached the shores of seniority himself, the author finds a surprising contentment in the eyes of his fellow retirees.
- Collateral damage: the Civil War only enhanced George Whitman's soldierly satisfaction; for his brother Walt, however, the horrors halted an outpouring of great poetry.
- My bright abyss: I never felt the pain of unbelief until I believed. But belief itself is hardly painless.
- The high road to Narnia: C. S. Lewis and his friend J. R. R. Tolkien believed that truths are universal and that stories reveal them.
- Nessus at noon.
- The art of human surveillance.
- Cauldron bubble: Macbeth minus its supernatural elements could not have mattered so much to Lincoln and Dr. Johnson--and should not matter to us.
- Lunching on Olympus: my meals with W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, Philip Larkin, and William Empson.
- Cal & Liz & Ted & Sylvia: the corresponding prose of midcentury poets.
- A passion for architecture: nuggets from a critical gold mine.
- Let me count the ways: are we getting more obsessive or more compulsive about diagnosing?
- Lucid madness: a massacre of Apache women and children, and the difficulties of telling their story.
- Of time and the camera: an art critic and historian turns his attention to contemporary photography.
- Grief.
- Biographer Hazel Rowley reflects on book censorship in France.