Vol. 78 Nbr. 3, June 2009

Index

• War stories.
• Evolution's purpose.
• Computers cleared.
• Friends and letters.
• Spring fever.
• The unkindest cut.
• Sesquicentennial excess: must we erase evidence of later commemorations at Civil War sites?
• Double take.
• The best of all possible cafes.
• The uses of re-enchantment.
• On the road again.
• IKEA satellites.
• Titanium-strength outerwear.
• Not ready for Mt. Rushmore: reconciling the myth of Ronald Reagan with the reality.
• Shock waves: a blast in Baghdad tests the endurance of a soldier and his family.
• The devil you know: keeping the peace in Ramadi calls for a little moral dexterity.
• Blue-collar brilliance: questioning assumptions about intelligence, work, and social class.
• Gary Snyder's long view.
• Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany.
• Stories in the Night.
• Siberian Outpost.
• A Letter to M.A. Who Lives Far Away.
• Enough already: what I'd really like to tell the bores in my life.
• Words apart: a writer in Quebec finds that language creates an unbridgeable divide.
• Any way you slice it: Sundays at the community oven aren't just about the pizza.
• Precautions inutiles.
• Driving to the moon.
• The meaning behind the lines: how Ibsen's toughness and Chekhov's tenderness transformed American playwriting and acting.
• Star Picture Tipi of Black Magpie.
• Barbarian virtues: when Americans firs yearned to transform themselves and save the world.
• Jungle Bungle: as a rubber baron, Henry Ford was no firestone.
• Gross anatomy: a physician's inside stories about the human body.
• The lost village: a Palestinian poet remembers the people and places he has lived without.
• Pilgrim of eternity: the loves and legends of Lord Byron.
• Remembering John Updike: a critic and his decades-long correspondence with one of America's best 'freelance writers'.
• Hypocrisy.
• Parkman Prize--winner Jared Farmer reflects on writing the biography of a landform.