Autumn 2009

Articles

Writing About Writers

Bob Thompson

The Doctor Is IN

Daniel B. Smith

At 88, Aaron Beck is now revered for an approach to psychotherapy that pushed Freudian analysis aside

The Decline of the English Department

William M. Chace

How it happened and what could be done to reverse it

Notes from the Earth

Barry Lopez

Running Yangtze rapids, following Afghan herdsmen, four-wheeling Australia’s Jack Hills—intimate contacts with natural landscapes

A Mindful Beauty

Joel E. Cohen

What poetry and applied mathematics have in common

Armchair Travelers

Toby Lester

The Renaissance writers and humanists Petrarch and Boccaccio turned to geography to understand the works of antiquity

Mother Country

Evelyn Toynton

A daughter examines a life played out in romantic defiance of bad fortune

Fiction

Unrippable

Ralph Lombreglia

Ground Rule

Patricia Volk

Poetry

Openings into an Open Mind

Langdon Hammer

Six Poems

Maureen N. McLane

Arts

Facing the Music

Morris Dickstein

What 1930s pop culture can teach us about our own hard times