CONTENTS – SUMMER 2009

OUR READERS WRITE BACK

Missing His Pellegrino, What We’re Reading

 

FROM THE EDITOR

True Confessions

 

INTERNATIONAL NOTEBOOK

Against Asceticism, by David Galef

The uses of disenchantment.

 

FEATURES

Autobiographical Fire and Obama’s Creation of Self,

by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

Hail to the writer.

Dazed and Confused, by Kevin Mattson

How the war on terror became a war on intellect.

A Brief History of Ecoterror, by Caroline Zimmerman

Harsh lessons learned by friends of the earth.

 

REVIEWS

Are Global Ethics Possible? by Andrew Benedict-Nelson

A review of The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty, by Peter Singer.

Paying Back Our Moral Debts, by James Roots

A review of Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, by Margaret Atwood.

After Lolita in Tehran, by Penelope Mesic

A review of Things I Have Been Silent About: Memories, by Azar Nafisi.

Hamlet Dogs Oprah, by Adam Davis

A review of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski.

 

POEMS

Out Among the Lilies, by Frederick Zydek

California’s Burning, by James Grabill

 

EDITOR’S CHOICE

The best of recent books.

 

BOOKENDS

The Day I Almost Saved the Humanities, by Tom McBride

Hanging on in the wilderness.

 

CONTRIBUTORS

A who’s who of this issue.

 

IN APPRECIATION

A list of donors (2007-2008) to the Great Books Foundation.