Summer 2006
ARTICLES
The Ordinariness of AIDS
By Philip Alcabes
Can a disease that tells us so much about ourselves ever be anything but extraordinary?
The Sack of Baghdad
By Susannah Rutherglen
The U.S. invasion turned cultural icons into loot and archaeological sites into ruins
Miles from Nowhere By Edward Hoagland
The journal of a return trip to the wilderness of British Columbia
Rum and Coca-Cola By Wayne Curtis
The undistilled origins of a sweet drink and a sassy World War II song
The Embarrassment of Riches By Pamela Haag
Do not pity me for having more money than anyone I know; still, wealth is harder than it looks
The Case for Love By Natalie Wexler
Did the friendship of an early Supreme Court justice and the wife of a colleague ever cross the line of propriety?
FICTION
What Do You Want to Know For?
By Alice Munro
Dinners at Six
By David Leavitt
ARTS
The Man Who Got His Way By Wendy Smith
John Hammond, scion of white privilege, helped integrate popular music
POETRY
The Crux of the Matter: Heather McHugh
By Langdon Hammer
Six Poems By Heather McHugh
For Vanessa Hayden By Stephen Burt
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BOOKS
The Mind-Brain Problem
A life in psychology
By Jay Tolson
Worked Well with Others
Francis Crick and DNA
By Priscilla Long
Half-Brother to the World
Being like other nations
By Eugen Weber
African Renaissance
Reasons for hope
By David Chanoff
In Search of a Great Modernist
By Susan Rubin Suleiman
Tiny Tomes
By Judith Pascoe
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
Letter From Rio
By Alan Peter Ryan
Commonplace Book:
Summer
Collected by André Bernard
Works in Progress
Black Hills big chief;
Saturn moonlets;
democracy’s end;
parking in Detroit;
ankles pending;
kids and crime;
Harding’s line
The Reader Replies
Findings
A Bogey Tale
By Brian Doyle
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