Articles in this Issue
In Exile from Our Words
Stanley Cavell’s “Excerpts from Memory.”
Insistent Ghosts
The poetry of Paul Mariani.
“To Be Liked by You Would Be a Calamity”
What’s missing from accounts of Marianne Moore’s life & works?
The Desert God at the Twin Towers
Richard Rodriguez, contrarian and master of the essay.
The Case of the Missing Consensus
George Marsden revisits the 1950s.
The Kid
A revealing biography of E. E. Cummings.
Punny Business
Lorrie Moore on the loose again.
The Puzzle of “Beowulf.”
A Christian poet’s subtle craft.
A Way Through the Labyrinth
On the secular and the sacred.
Nietzsches Nietzsches Everywhere
Zarathustra in America.
Operation Judgment
The Battle of Verdun.
Arab Eyes, Arab Voices
Prospects for democracy in the Middle East and North Africa.
The Science of the Sermon
19th-century exemplars.
Haiti Is the Future
A counter-narrative.
Delusions of Grandeur
The Emperor Napoleon.
Slacker Ethnography
A curious account of prison religion.
Patience May Be Rewarded
Faith from generation to generation.
Sullen Independence
An MK’s memoir.
The Two Cultures, Then and Now
The sciences, the humanities, and their common enemy.
Whither Monogamy?
Online dating, biology, and “long-term mating strategies.”