Winter 2006
ARTICLES
The New Anti-Semitism
By Bernard Lewis
First religion, then race, then what?
My Holocaust Problem
By Arthur Krystal
If we cannot speak of it—though speak of it we must—how do we remember what happened to the Jews of Europe?
Palladio in the Rough By Witold Rybczynski
Building classical revival houses that really look old
Fadeaway Jumper By Mark Edmundson
A Sunday-afternoon player’s farewell to basketball
Flat Time By Robert Finch
The ebb and flow of life in a Newfoundland fishing village
Buster Brown’s America By Jiri Wyatt
How a Jew from Slovakia turned into a real American
A Visit to Esperantoland By Arika Okrent
The natives want you to learn their invented language as a step toward world harmony. Who are these people?
The Lieutenant By Brian Doyle
Inept in the art of warfare, this volunteer soldier succeeded on a different field
ARTS
Brand-New Cities By Wayne Curtis
Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Effect looks a lot like 1960s-style urban renewal
Lenny’s Little Chats By Sudip Bose
Envy the children who learned from the maestro
The One Who Went Before By Elizabeth Alexander
Remembering the playwright August Wilson, 1945—2005
POETRY
Michael Longley: Seven Poems
By Langdon Hammer
Boy Shooting at a Statue By Billy Collins
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BOOKS
A Man in It
Lincoln’s lieutenants
By Garry Wills
Darwin’s Greatest Discovery
The complex designs of living things need not imply a designer
By Francisco J. Ayala
A Cold Eye on the Cold War
How we avoided Armageddon
By Stephen J. Whitfield
Short Reviews:
By Sarah L. Courteau, Andrew Starner, Daniel Reid
DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
Letter From Mae La
Refugee camp as refuge
By David Summers
Commonplace Book:
Mountains
Collected by André Bernard
Works in Progress
The future of the city;
trash man;
happy feet;
angel or devil;
helpful venom;
go West?
Exhortation
The invisible working class
William Deresiewicz
The Reader Replies
Findings
Honestly, Abe!
By Ted Widmer
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