Spring 2008
 ARTICLES
Exhortation: The Broken Balance
Edward Hoagland
A long-ago warning of the ravages to nature
we now face
Passing the Torch
Stephen J. Pyne
Why the eons-old truce between humans
and fire has burst into an age of megafires,
and what can be done about it
The Liberal Imagination of Frederick Douglass
Nick Bromell
Honoring the emotions that give life to
liberal principles
What Kind of Father Am I?
James McConkey
Looking back at a lifetime of parenting sons
Rome's Gossip Columnist
Garry Wills
When the first-century poet Martial turned his stylus on you, you got the point
Shipwrecked
Janna Malamud Smith
A daughter salvages what she can after her mother's death
A Slow Devouring
Steve Macone
A disciplined but difficult passage through Finnegans Wake
FICTION
Royal Blue
Charles Baxter
Me and Big Foot
Jill McCorkle
ARTS
Polymer Persons Priscilla Long
Gazing upon the skinned, displayed bodies of the dead
What the Mind's Eye Sees Jason Edward Kaufman
Action painters were postwar exemplars of America
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DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
Letters
Letter from Oaxaca
No End in Sight
Robert Joe Stout
Works in Progress
Shakespeare in the
harbor; on Muslim
minds; fancy footwork;
courting frogs; invisible
poetry; if God used
Google Earth
Tuning Up
Exit No Exit
David Lehman
Commonplace Book
Neglect
Collected by Anne Matthews
Point of Departure
Two wizards, one room
Allan Gurganus
POETRY
Boarding: Hemaris thysbe
Joanie Mackowski
Maker and Collector: Frank Bidart
Langdon Hammer
Two poems
Frank Bidart
BOOKS
Essay
The art of literature
and
the science of literature
Brian Boyd
Reviews
Hands raised; camera
obscuring; famished;
sleep not; whodunit;
Indian acid trip
Wayne Curtis, Andy
Grundberg, Dan Bouk,
Sarah Fay, Britt
Peterson, Sudip Bose
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