Autumn 2008

Articles

Exhortation

The Censor in the Mirror

Ha Jin

It's not only what the Chinese Propaganda Department does to artists, but what it makes artists do to their own work

The Torture Colony

Bruce Falconer

In a remote part of Chile, an evil German evangelist built a utopia whose members helped the Pinochet regime perform its foulest deeds

Where Does American History Begin?

Ted Widmer

Mixing geography with invention, the first explorers and mapmakers made the New World a very hard place to pin down

Something Called Terrorism

Leonard Bernstein

What our fear of the enemy does to us

The New Old Way of Learning Languages

Ernest Blum

Now all but vanished, a once-popular system of reading Greek and Latin classics could revitalize modern teaching methods

Fiction

Making Good

Lore Segal

Modern Lovers

Rick Moody

Poetry

Apollo and Dionysus

Langdon Hammer

Henri Cole combines the formal and the sensual

Four Poems

Henri Cole

Bronze Bells of Autumn

Linda Pastan

Arts

From Oppressed to Oppressors

Wendy Smith

The Battle of Algiers took a pitiless look at the war for Algerian independence, but the filmmakers could not foresee the failures that would result