Winter 2010

Articles

My Brain on My Mind

Priscilla Long

The ABCs of the thrumming, plastic mystery that allows us to think, feel, and remember

The Stolen Election

Gelareh Asayesh

An expatriate Iranian writer travels her troubled homeland in the weeks after last summer’s disputed presidential vote

Seventy Years Later

John Lukacs

The Second World War destroyed Adolf Hitler, but his legacy is showing disturbing signs of life

Strange Matter

John Olson

The physics and poetics of the search for the God particle

Wrestling with Two Behemoths

Ved Mehta

A longtime New Yorker, and New Yorker writer, gets the cold shoulder from powerful New York cultural institutions

Fiction

The Blue Birds Come Today

Laura Furman

Burritoville

Mark Jude Poirier

Poetry

Karl Kirchwey's Forge of Love

Langdon Hammer

Four Poems

Karl Kirchwey

The Study

Rachel Hadas

Arts

Offbeat at the Apollo

Wendy Smith

Elvis Costello’s cable TV show, Spectacle, ranges across musical genres and centuries