Autumn 2007 ARTICLES Wonder Bread Melvin Jules Bukiet Come with us to a place called Brooklyn, where the stories are half-baked and their endings bland and soft Unto Caesar Ethan Fishman Religious groups that have allied themselves with politicians, and vice versa, have ignored at their peril the lessons of Roger Williams and U.S. history The Trojan War William Nichols Now even environmentalists are reconsidering nuclear power generation. Can the industry be trusted? Poetry Stand Douglas Goetsch How a precocious group of high school poets learned to provide verse on demand Lady of the Lake Alice Kaplan Writer Brenda Ueland and the one story she never shared Apologies All Around Gorman Beauchamp Today's tendency to make amends for the crimes of history raises the question: where do we stop? FICTION The Nursery Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum ARTS Good Thing Going Wendy Smith After 50 years on Broadway, Stephen Sondheim keeps looking better and better Death on the Installment Plan Jon Zobenica Growing old gracefully the Rolling Stones way DEPARTMENTS Editor's Note Letters Letter from Cambodia At last, an international tribunal takes up Khmer Rouge atrocities Dustin Roasa Tuning Up Inshallah Cullen Murphy Works in Progress White whale meets unicorn; the scent of linden; Constitutional change; to catch a thief; radio plays; energetic sitting; can you see? Commonplace Book Homecomings Collected by Anne Matthews Findings From our archives William Haley POETRY Louise Gluck's Italy of the Mind Langdon Hammer Four poems Louise Gluck BOOKS Reviews Gertrude and Alice; hard on the ears; party politics; shipwrecked; intelligence under the knife; mind and music Catharine R. Stimpson, Sudip Bose, Jill Ogline, Anthony Brandt, Richard Restak, Jennifer Michael Hecht