Summer 2007
ARTICLES
The Mystery of Ales
Kai Bird and Svetlana
Chervonnaya
The argument that Alger
Hiss was a WWII-era Soviet asset is flawed.
New evidence points to someone else.
Expanded, with footnotes
Love on Campus
William Deresiewicz
Why we should understand, and even encourage, a certain
sort of erotic intensity between student and professor
Remember Statecraft?
Dennis Ross
What diplomacy can do, and why we need it
more than ever
Gazing into the Abyss
Christian Wiman
The sudden appearance of love and the galvanizing prospect
of death lead a young poet to a “hope toward God”
‘Mem, mem, mem’
Paul West
After a stroke, a prolific novelist struggles to say how the
mental state of aphasia looks and feels
Between Two Worlds
Christopher Clausen
The familiar story of Pocahontas was mirrored by that of a
young Englishman given as a hostage to her father
Fragments of Paradise
Alberto Manguel
Gardens like those of Friedrich II at Sanssouci
help us to read the world
FICTION
The House at Belle Fontaine
Lily Tuck
Tamarack State
Andrea Barrett
ARTS
Arthur of Camelot Ted Widmer
Remembering Arthur Schlesinger, a knight-errant
with typewriter
The Short Reign of Fred Allen Dennis Drabelle
Jack Benny's comic rival starred in a program prefiguring
“Weekend Update” and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
Letters
Letter From New Orleans:
Chasing the Blues Away
Lawrence N. Powell
Commonplace Book:
Scoundrels
Collected by André Bernard
Works in Progress
Undermining a Gaudí;
e-Walt;
our robotic future;
melodies are made of this;
pigeon navigation;
one vast digital temple
Findings
From our archives
Richard H. Rovere
POETRY
Two poems
by David Sofield
BOOKS
Reviews
Edith Wharton;
presidential courage;
paradise revisited;
John Muir walking;
Einstein's mind
keeping up
Sandra M. Gilbert,
Gary Hart,
Sarah Fay,
William Howarth,
Stephen Petranek,
Sandra Beasley
Essay
The Alexandria
Quartet at 50
Charles Trueheart
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