Summer 2005
ARTICLES
Accidental Elegance
By Mary Beth Saffo
Charles Darwin and how chance authors the universe
Genome Tome
By Priscilla Long
Twenty-three ways of looking at our ancestors
Turning the Tide By William Howarth
How Rachel Carson became a woman of letters
Not So Fast with the DDT By Reed Karaim
Rachel Carson’s warnings still apply
Roosevelt Redux By Thomas N. Bethell
Robert M. Ball and the battle for Social Security
Part Two: The Word with the Big New Syllable
Summer Visitors By Ann Beattie
Buy a house in Maine and they will come. And come.
Hearing Is Believing By Apurva Narechania
Ivory-billed sightings leave field biologists wanting to hear more. — The Call of the Wild By Will Yandik
The Man Who Loved Cemeteries By Allan Gurganus
Ted Ashton Phillips Jr., 1959-2005
ARTS
Into the Swamp By Ted Widmer
How will The Atlantic fare when it leaves the capital of dissent?
Principally to Delight By Susannah Rutherglen
Who says that museum-going isn’t a leisure activity?
On Virtuosity By Sudip Bose
A mastery of technique ought to be exalted, not disdained
POETRY
Twinkletape and Angel Bones
By John Updike
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BOOKS
War Stories
What West Point grads are reading in Iraq
By Elizabeth D. Samet
Reviews:
Virgil’s farm news;
how the world works;
religious convictions;
what becomes a classic;
the smiling novelist;
sixpack
By A. E. Stallings, Jennifer Michael Hecht, R. Laurence Moore, John Seelye, William P. Kelly, and Gary Cross
Short reviews: Sarah L. Courteau, Caroline Preston, and Andrew Starner
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
Letter From Rome
The Keys to St. Peter’s
By Ingrid D. Rowland
Commonplace Book:
Sound
Collected by André Bernard
Works in Progress
Older and bolder at Fisk;
a mother’s gift;
whither democracy?
last of the chestnuts;
the house of no blueprints;
keeping operatic score
The Reader Replies
Findings
The Battered Trunk
By Brenda Wineapple
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