Autumn 2006
ARTICLES
Lincoln the Persuader
By Douglas L. Wilson
Seeking to get the people behind his policies, he made himself the best writer of all our presidents
Exhortation:
Getting it all Wrong
By Brian Boyd
The proponents of Theory and Cultural Critique could learn a thing or two from bioculture
Tower of Babel By Richard B. Woodward
A brilliant Russian linguist began a database of all we know about languages, but his death puts the project in jeopardy
My Mother's Body By Mary Gordon
Just remembering her is not enough; resurrecting her is the ultimate goal
Tomorrow Is Another Day By Carol Huang
An Ethiopian student survives a brutal imprisonment by translating Gone with the Wind into his native tongue
Saratoga Bill By Zachary Sklar
He bet cautiously at the track, but as a writer he was drawn to those with the odds stacked against them
FICTION
The Preacher's Wife
By Dennis McFarland
The Dome
By Steven Millhauser
ARTS
Uncommon Sense By Paul Goldberger
Remembering Jane Jacobs, who wrote the 20th century's most influential book about cities
POETRY
The Leaves Rush, Greening, Back: Carl Phillips
By Langdon Hammer
Three Poems
By Carl Phillips
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BOOKS
Birthday Suit
A thorough examination of the skin
By Natalie Angier
Humboldt's Gift
The 19th century German shaped American environmentalism
By Donald Worster
Animal Magnetism
Our love of exotic beasts offers little protection
By Ingrid Rowland
Incitements
Revolutionary roles
By Adam Goodheart
Living in Arcadia
By Robert Wilson
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
Letter From Qyteza
Chicago Connections
By Allison Stanger
Commonplace Book:
Color
Collected by Andre Bernard
Works in Progress
Operatice Alice;
origami for geniuses;
the military after Iraq;
search Indians;
gumball wizard;
where bugs come from;
bards on a bus
The Reader Replies
Findings
Bearing Gifts
By Anne Matthews
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