Summer 2008
Exhortation: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
William Deresiewicz
The best universities have forgotten their true purpose
 ARTICLES
The End of the Black American Narrative
Charles Johnson
A new century calls for new
stories grounded in the present
Intimacy
André Aciman
Revisiting the gritty Roman neighborhood of his youth, a writer discovers a world of his own invention
Pullovers
Kyoko Mori
Knitting a new life in America after a mother's suicide
Her Own Society
Brenda Wineapple
When Emily Dickinson and her radical friend Thomas Wentworth Higginson met for the first time
The Bout
Blair Fuller
George Plimpton goes three rounds with the light-heavyweight champion of the world
Buoyancy
Willard Spiegelman
The art of swimming isn't hard to master
FICTION
Happy with Crocodiles
Jim Shepard
Symbols
Sheila Kohler
ARTS
Grand Horse Opera Richard Locke
The best Westerns criticize the genre's ugly stereotypes
Syncopated Clock, Indeed Janet Frank
Revisiting Leroy Anderson's music on his centennial
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DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note
Letters
Letter from Antarctica
Cold Comfort
Emily Stone
Works in Progress
Bride of Robofly and
other simulations; a
dimmer night streetscape;
the meaning of brown;
quarter finals; aging
children; solar explorer
Tuning Up
A Most Interesting Young Man
Brian Doyle
Commonplace Book
Hope
Collected by Anne Matthews
Point of Departure
The art of surprise
Steve Vineberg
POETRY
Confluences of Sounds and Sense: Kay Ryan
Langdon Hammer
Six poems
Kay Ryan
After Callimachus
John Talbot
BOOKS
Reviews
European vocation; birth
of a nation's capital; the
Irish miracle; sending art
back home; cinematic Keats
Jean Bethke Elshtain,
Heather Ewing, George
O'Brien, Susannah
Rutherglen, Matthew Ladd
Essay
Remembering Arthur C. Clarke
Jeremy Bernstein
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