OUR READERS WRITE BACK
Missing His Pellegrino, What We’re Reading
FROM THE EDITOR
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
IN APPRECIATION
A list of donors (2007-2008) to the Great Books Foundation.
