BACK ISSUES
Below you will most of the back issues of the magazine since 2001. To view the articles listed next to each issue, simply click on the cover to download a PDF (up to 5MB). Note that all the downloadable issues after and including SPRING 2004 contain only partial content. The full text versions are available only as print copies from our Bookstore.
FROM THE EDITOR: "Running the Foxes"
"Satisfaction in Spain, Fulfillment in France," by Terry Caesar
"Lady Chatterley's Broker: Banking on Modernism," by Jonathan Rose
"Richard Rorty and the Politics of Modesty," by Michael Bérubé
"Color that Palate Dorian Gray!" by Regina Barreca
FROM THE EDITOR: "The Liberal Bogeyman Goes to Antioch"
"Who Wrote Frankenstein?" by Jonathan Gross
"Fifteen Theses on Anti-Semitism," by Earl Shorris
"At My Father's Table," by Mitch Levenberg
"More Rothian Than Roth," by Lloyd Sachs
"The Culture Warrior from Down Under," by Judith McCue
FROM THE EDITOR: "Coin of the Realm: Writing about Money"
"Movies as History," by Kevin Mattson
"Harry Potter and the Power of Narrative," by Michael Bérubé
"Reading (and Misreading) Lolita in Tehran," by Firoozeh Papan-Matin
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
FROM THE EDITOR: "Character and Criminality"
"Sympathy for the Devil: The Life and Afterlives of Christopher Marlowe," by Brett Foster
"Bartleby Unbound," by Nicholas Sabloff
"Driving into the Wreck," by Regina Barreca
"Who Owns Shakespeare?" by Tom McBride
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
FROM THE EDITOR: "Essential Wartime Reading"
"On the Holocaust Reunion Trail," by Les White
"Strange Attraction: Stories of Imperial Decline," by Ian Williams
"The Almighty Facts," by Albert B. Fernandez
"Of Filth and Frozen Dinners," by Nicholas Sabloff
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
FROM THE EDITOR: "Turning Five"
"After the Janjaweed," by Yasmine Perni
"Hey Buddy, Who Are You Calling an Intellectual?," by Everett Mattlin
"Scientific Exorcist Casts Out Demonic Memes," by David Sloan Wilson
"The Expanded Universe Quiz," by Andrew Nelson and Lindsay Benedict
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
FROM THE EDITOR: In the Penal Colonies
"After the Cartoons," by Mark Luccarelli
"Desperately Seeking Susan," by Dana Heller
"The Laugh Versus the Sneer," by Kevin Mattson
"History's Prism: Remembering the 1936 Berlin Olympics," by John Rodden
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
FROM THE EDITOR: "Scientists and Literalists"
"Epic Proportions," by Ethan Gilsdorf
"Finding Faith in Disbelief," by Ronald Aronson
"Earnest Revelations," by William Craig Rice
"On Not Speaking Portuguese," by Terry Caesar
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
FROM THE EDITOR: "Sacred Terror and Holy Texts: The Closing of the Literal Mind"
"Contradictions of th Veil," by Yasmine Perni
"Therapy for a Wounded Nation," by Sean McCann
"The Emperor is Partially Clothed," by Michael Bérubé
"On Walden Blog," by Andy Nelson
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
FROM THE EDITOR: "My Father and Muhammad Ali"
"What's Not Being Served in Service Learning," by David Neidorf
"How I Single-Handedly Wrecked the Western Novel," by Richard S. Wheeler
"Filling the Void," by Danny Postel
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
FROM THE EDITOR: "Provocation Unbound"
Danny Postel interviews Christopher Hitchens
"What's the Matter with David Brooks?" by Kevin Mattson
"The Rule of the Fox," by Justin Shubow
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
FROM THE EDITOR: "Call of the Pheasant"
"Vagrant Haiku," by Michael Hoffmann
"Imperial Soap Opera," by Les White
"The Teachers," by Ben Miller
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
"PATHOS Report," by Ethan Gilsdorf
FROM THE EDITOR: "Putting the Pleasure Back"
"Poetry and the Embarrassment of Riches," by Joseph Parisi
"Trading in the Enlightenment for the New Age," by Catherine Liu
"Famous Last Words," by John Green
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
FROM THE EDITOR: "How to Be American after Abu Ghraib"
"What's Wrong with a Rock Star Intellectual?," by Kevin Mattson
"Behind The Da Vinci Code," by Arthur Dewey
"Father Outside," by Nick Flynn and Josh Neufeld
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
FROM THE EDITOR: "Bad Men and Good Books"
"All Zat Jass," by Dana Heller
"Classic Books and Common Readers," by Jonathan Rose
"Philosophy at 8000 Meters," by Susan Weiner
EDITOR'S CHOICE: The best of recent books
"All About Me!," by Marta Segal Block
"Why We Listen," by Ben Miller
"The Trouble with Tolkien," by Ethan Gilsdorf
"The New Yorker's Hemingway," by Nancy Comley
"Prison Man Gets Out," by John Edwards
"Western Civilations and Its Discontents," by Michael Bérubé
"The Cruelty of Zora Neale Hurston," by Sean McCann
"Orwell's Voice, Orwell's Presence," by Scott McLemee
"After the 'True Believer'," by Kathleen Kirk
"Why We Look So Bad, by Regina Barreca
"The Philosophical Traveler," by Al Gini
"Finding Luck, Seeking Virtue in the New Las Vegas," by Alan Michael Parker
"How to Abuse a Classic," by David Neidorf
"The War on the Bill of Rights—and the Gathering Resistance," by Nat Hentoff
"American Primitive: In the Shadow of the Serpent," by Ralph W. Hood, Jr.
Vol. 2, No. 1 – Winter 2002
"Paralysis by Analysis," by Gerald Graff
"What's Not Funny," by David Galef
"James Joyce and the Great Books," by Kevin Dettmar
"Melville's Agony: After the Whale," by Elizabeth Schultz
"A Table for One at the Algonquin," by Ben Miller
"Dylan Now," by Oliver Conant
"Imperial Science," by Eugene Goodheart
"Still on the Lower Frequencies: Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' at Fifty," by Kenneth W. Warren
"To Tango Over the Abyss: A Letter from Buenos Aires," by Adam Schrag
"The Language Wars," by Christina Boufis
Vol. 1, No. 3 – Spring 2002
"What Price Hollywood: Dreams and Nightmares of the Great Depression," by Morris Dickstein
"A Dream of Journalism without Advertising: The 'Day Book' in Chicago," by Duane Stoltzfus
"Between a Rock and Hard Place," by Lennard J. Davis
"Man Trouble," by Michael Kimmel
"The Cold War and Its Discontents," by Masha Karp
Vol. 1, No. 2 – Winter 2002
"The Lost New York Waterfront," by Phillip Lopate
"America Discovers the World: An Interview with Benjamin Barber"
"Mortimer J. Adler: A Century of Great Books," by Sidney Hyman
"Milton in the Belly of the Fish," by Peggy Samuels
"Thinking Science Beyond the Textbooks," by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
Vol. 1, No. 1 – Fall 2001
"My Wife Loves Cats," by David Albahari
"Chester Himes, Black Hard-Boiled Master," by Sean McCann
"I Spent the Night at Phnom Penh," by David L. Wagner
"Reading Blake in the Underground: Notes on the Conference at the Tate," by Derek Miller
"Euclid, Lincoln, and Jesus: A New Curriculum?," by David J. Pittenger