Winter 2005
ARTICLES
The Glue Is Gone
By Edward Hoagland
The things that hold us together have disappeared
So Help Me God
By Ted Widmer
What 54 inaugural addresses tell us about America
What We Got Wrong By Lawrence Rosen
It would have been helpful, in Iraq, to know the people we are helping
The Coming of the French By Phyllis Rose
How the two Jacques changed college teaching
The Software Wars By Paul De Palma
Why you can’t understand your computer
The Crooner and the Physicist By Jeremy Bernstein
In pursuit of Jacques Brel
A Sturdy Man By Brian Doyle
Remembering someone you would have liked to know
ARTS
Point and Shoot By Andy Grundberg
The Abu Ghraib pictures and the photography of war
“I Can’t Believe I’m Doing It With Madame Bovary” By Jonathan Karp
And other bulletins from the world of musical comedy
In Praise of Flubs By Sudip Bose
Perfection is no virtue in classical recordings
Industrial-Strength Humanist By Robert Campbell
J. Irwin Miller knew good architecture
POETRY
Two Formalists
By Langdon Hammer
Remembering Anthony Hecht and Thom Gunn
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BOOKS
End of Discussion
Why I’m leaving my book group
By Suzanne Freeman
Reviews:
Antebellum Southern Intellectuals,
Einstein,
Bluebeard,
Thoreau,
and more
By Richard E. Nicholls, Tony Rothman, Alison Lurie, Kent C. Ryden, and Michael Upchurch
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
Letter From Paris
The Death of Derrida
By Charles Trueheart
Commonplace Book:
Change
Collected by André Bernard
Exhortation
Class Warfare
By Josiah Bunting III
The Reader Replies
Findings
Another Washington Leak
By Patricia O’Toole
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