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October 17, 2024
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Tim Parks
Do We Need the Nobel?: An Exchange
Rita Dove
Defending an Anthology
Jeffrey Laurenti
Targeted Killings
Dietrich Rueschemeyer
The Freud Question: An Exchange
Galen Strawson
On ‘The Stranger’s Child’
Sanford Schwartz
The Cauldrons of de Kooning
Herbert Terrace
Can Chimps Converse?: An Exchange
Roderick MacFarquhar
‘No Truck With Pakistan’
Mary Beard
The Dragging of Hector
Tomas Tranströmer
Solitude (I)
To Friends Behind a Border
Mark Strand
The Old Age of Nostalgia
Stanley Hoffmann
A Cure for a Sick Country?
Frederick Seidel
Back Then
Jason Epstein
The Specter of Nuclear Drones
W.S. Merwin
Urticophilia
William D. Foulkes
What Genes Can’t Tell Us: An Exchange
Jonathan Mirsky
How Good Are China’s Schools?
John Rappole
Did Big Pharma Create the Flu Panic?
Gresham Riley
Montaigne’s Case for Ignorance
Barclay Martin
The Mystery of Consciousness, Con’t.
Charles Simic
Trouble Coming
Henri Cole
Two Poems
John Oldham
‘The Illusions of Psychiatry’: An Exchange
Sarah Plimpton
Three Poems
Stuart Robinowitz
Goldstone and Gaza: An Exchange
Bernard Hirschel
Take Your Tamiflu!
Lee H. Hamilton, et al.
A Letter to President Obama
John Ashbery
After the Flood
V.S. Ramachandran
‘The Tell-Tale Brain’: An Exchange
Reva Wolf
‘What Andy Warhol Did’: An Exchange
Ivan Szelenyi
Arrested in the Emirates
Ramsay MacMullen
The Tenacity of Paganism
Adam Zagajewski
Two Poems by Adam Zagajewski
Hubert Dreyfus
‘All Things Shining’: An Exchange
Joyce Carol Oates
‘A Widow’s Story’
John J. Simpson
The Eco Elephant
John Summers
How Intellectuals Dropped Out
Max Saunders
‘The Finest Novel About World War I’
Bruce Ackerman
Private Manning’s Humiliation
Jay Dowling
Standing Won’t Do
Richard Wasteneys
Aid For Scoundrels
Kabir
Except That It Robs You of Who You Are
Francis Barry McCarthy
‘Is Health Care Reform Unconstitutional?’: An Exchange
Alex Gezerlis
‘How We Know’
Midwinter
Molly Haskell
‘The Mad Men Account’
Lesley Chamberlain
The ‘Liberal God’ That Failed
Mike Boehm
Don’t Give Rock a Bad Rap
Jeremy Bernstein
The Atom at 3 PM
Harriette Kaley
Trudeau & Trauma
Brian Chatterton
The Bengal Famine
James A. Heffernan
How to Use the Internet
John R. Searle
‘Is Just Thinking Enough?’
Janet Coleman
‘City Boy’
The Editors
Corrections
Thomas Nagel
Tony Judt: The Distinctions
Tale
Nothing Else
Marco Petruzzi
‘The Myth of Charter Schools’
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