Autumn 2012 Issue
Departments
Editor's Note
Presidents and Poets
Robert Wilson
Letters
Response to Our Summer 2012 Issue
Our readers
Letters From …
Srebrenica: The Scars of Genocide
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Sarah Kenyon Lischer
Works in Progress
Things to Come in the Arts and Sciences
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Allen Freeman
Tuning Up
Freud’s Immortal Question
David Lehman
Commonplace Book
Blame
Anne Matthews
Point of Departure
Academics Anonymous
Paula Marantz Cohen
Book Essay
Prince of Poets
David J. Wasserstein
Book Reviews
Confounding Father
T. H. Breen
Questions of Being
Jay Tolson
Kerouac in His Own Words
Deborah Baker
A Monster at Large
James Fallows
Golden Rules
Sarah Ruden
Articles
The Clintons Up Close
Jane Warwick Yoder and Edwin M. Yoder Jr.
A friendship between two couples yields insights into a presidency and a marriage
Too Big to Fail and Too Risky to Exist
William J. Quirk
Four years after the 2008 financial crisis, banks are behaving more recklessly than ever
Liberty Is a Slow Fruit
Louis P. Masur
Lincoln the deliberate emancipator
Mortify Our Wolves
Christian Wiman
The struggle back to life and faith in the face of pain and the certainty of death
Love in Wartime
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Maxine Kumin
The epistolary romance of a Los Alamos scientist and a Radcliffe junior destined for poetic renown
Letter to Posterity
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Arthur C. Danto
A passion for philosophy led me to my first career, and a passion for art led me to a second, as a critic
Fiction
We Shall Go to Her, But She Will Not Return to Us
Thisbe Nissen
The prodigal daughter comes home
At Boquillas
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Ben Stroud
Poetry
The Voice Is Ready to Sing
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Langdon Hammer
Four Poems
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Angie Estes
Cassandra
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Linda Pastan
Arts
All Scotland Waits for Her
N. S. Thompson
An inspired British documentary featured an unforgettable locomotive, and the work of two of the 20th century’s greatest artists
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