Summer 2017 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
Breach of Faith
Robert Wilson
Letters
Responses to Our Spring 2017 Issue
Our readers
Letters From …
Fontaine-de-Vaucluse: Where the Waters Speak of Love
Jeffrey Tayler
Works in Progress
Industrial Evolution
Alyssa Schukar
Digging Into the Future
Eric H. Cline
Virtual Vellum
Noelani Kirschner
Chasing Henrietta
Andrea Barrett
Unstacking the Deck
Sara Goudarzi
Canis Sapiens
Elyse Graham
Tuning Up
My Mentor
Susan Minot
Commonplace Book
Summer 2017
Anne Matthews
Book Essay
Remembering Bob Silvers
Garry Wills
Book Reviews
It’s Complicated
Michael Shermer
Waking From the Dream
Nancy Isenberg
Not by Taste Alone
Tim Carman
England, My England
Jan Morris
Back From Oblivion
Dana Gioia
Broken Bodies, Broken Forms
Roy Scranton
“I Will Die a Russian”
Sarah Mansfield Taber
American Places
Back Bay Aerial View
Joel Babb
Articles
Our Nuclear Future
Jeffrey Lewis
We may think the bomb is back, but it never really went away
Dishonorable Behavior
Elizabeth D. Samet
The scourge of military sexual assault and the warrior’s masculine code
Reading Thoreau at 200
William Howarth
Why is the seminal work of the great American transcendentalist held in such scorn today?
My Mongolian Spot
Jennifer Hope Choi
An ephemeral birthmark is a rare gift, connecting me to generations spanning the centuries
Things Sweet to Taste
Leslie Stainton
Much to my regret, I never truly knew the woman who helped raise me
Goodbye to Westbrook Acres
Andrew Hudgins
As a writer walks and muses, the world’s sorrows intrude upon the peaceful streets he will be leaving
Fiction
Alphaland
Ralph Lombreglia
When a New York neighborhood secedes, a veteran rockstar finds himself on the outs
Arts
A Legacy in Ruins
Cathy Otten
What now for Iraq’s Mosul Museum, recently liberated from ISIS?
A Wink and a Nod
Adam Begley
The French artist Nadar at his most subversive and sly
Prometheus Unbound
Jerome Charyn
Emily Dickinson comes confidently alive
E-newsletter
THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK
Jane Austen’s Ivory Cage
By Mikita Brottman
Today we’re pouring one out for the inimitable Jane Austen, who died 200 years ago this week. She left her readers a treasure trove to devour most ardently, including Mansfield Park, arguably her most difficult novel. Read this essay to discover the dark side of the grand estates and courtly balls.
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women
By Elizabeth Norton
Read an excerpt from Elizabeth Norton’s new give-it-to-me-straight history of 16th-century English gals
