Vol. 78 Nbr. 1, January 2009

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.