Autumn 2005
ARTICLES
Tea and Fantasy
By Adam Goodheart
Fact, fiction, and revolution in an American town
Education Is My Mother and My Father
By David Chanoff
How the Lost Boys of Sudan found their way
Teaching the N-Word By Emily Bernard
A black professor, an all-white class, and one bad epithet
The Rise and Fall of David Duke By Lawrence N. Powell
Breaking the code of right-wing populism in Louisiana
Chekhov’s Journey By James McConkey
Finding the ideal of freedom in a rugged prison colony
Beaten Boys and Frantic Pets By Adam Gussow
A close reading of Tom Sawyer reveals why Mark Twain isn’t nearly as funny as he thinks he is
Custom and Law By Melvin Jules Bukiet
After the death of his father, a not-notably observant Jew turns to the mourning rituals of his faith
ARTS
Travels with Alfred By Timothy Foote
On assignment with one of the world’s great photographers
Tristes Tropiques By William Zinsser
Remembering the screenwriter of North by Northwest
All the Extras By Tim Page
When the film is only the beginning
POETRY
The Latches of Paradise
By Langdon Hammer
About Charles Wright
Appalachian Autumn By Charles Wright
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BOOKS
The Abuses of Enchantment
Why some children’s classics give parents the creeps
By Wendy Smith
Reviews:
Edmund Wilson reconsidered;
making a democracy;
something about a hero
By William H. Pritchard, Richard E. Nicholls, and Elyse Graham
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
Letter From Berlin
War and Remembrance
By Peter Filkins
Commonplace Book:
Youth
Collected by André Bernard
Works in Progress
Teaching photography in Kabul;
solving the twin primes riddle;
Kitty Kelley’s untold secrets;
counting species in the Great Smoky Mountains;
women after the tsunami;
tyke trike
Document
David Newman
The Reader Replies
Findings
The Baroness Eyewitness
By Anne Matthews
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