Contents
Volume 8, Number 3
Winter 2010
OUR READERS WRITE BACK
Not That Into the Classics, Against Pabulum, Not By Great Books Alone
FROM THE EDITOR
Great Books for a Planet in Trouble
INTERNATIONAL NOTEBOOK
On Separate Sides of the Green Line, by Jessica Leving
“There’s nothing as good as vindication.”
Celebrating the Other Second City, by Ian Williams
If Islam put out the welcome wagon.
FEATURES
Politics and the Intellectual: The Legacy of Irving Howe, by John Rodden and Ethan Goffman
The mellowing of a radical.
Dorian Gray and the Moral Imagination, by Kristian Williams
When Oscar Wilde searched his soul.
Marco Polo: The Long Term Effects of Study Abroad, by Ron Weber
Lessons from a cross-cultural pioneer.
REVIEWS
Labor Without Love, by Al Gini.
A review of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, by Alain de Botton.
The Loss of Brown’s Woods: A Letter to Scott Russell Sanders, by Jonathan Boyd
A review of A Conservationist Manifesto, by Scott Russell Sanders.
The Half-Life of Regret, by Nancy Carr
A review of A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore.
Postscandal Readings, by Krista Eastman
A review of Fakers, Hoaxers, Con Artists, Counterfeiters, and Other Great Pretenders, by Paul Maliszewski and Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy, by Savannah Knoop.
Listening to Lasch, by Nicholas Sabloff
A review of What Are Intellectuals Good For? by George Scialabba.
Lighting Up on Gordita Beach, by Sean McCann
A review of Inherent Vice: A Novel, by Thomas Pynchon.
Beyond Medical Solutions, by Andrew Benedict-Nelson.
A review of Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese.
POEMS
Butter and Eggs, by Kathleen Kirk
BOOKENDS
Bad Jokes, by Terry Caesar
Laugh at your own peril.
EDITOR’S CHOICE
The best of recent books.
CONTRIBUTORS
IN APPRECIATION
A list of donors (2008-2009) for the Great Books Foundation.
