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To VoLUME 7 6 INDEX tions preceding page numbers designate the season in 2007 in which the issue appeared Wi = Winter, Sp Spring, Su Summer, Au Autumn ickerman, Diane, introduction to ‘Mem, mem, brations, Wi 10; Defeat, Sp 141; Scoundrels, mem’ by Paul West, Su 66 Su 142 Amateurism (FINDINGS), Richard E. Nicholls, Bernard, Emily, Fired, Wi 101 Au 144 Between Two Worlds, Christopher Clausen, Su 80 Another Cause for Wonder (Poem), John Hol Bird, Kai, and Svetlana Chervonnaya, The Mys- lander, Sp 19 tery of Ales, Su 20 Atonality and Beyond (Books), Sudip Bose, Books: Wi 134; Sp 118; Su 124; Au 122 Au 125 The Historical Present, A. /. Stallings, Wi Apologies All Around, Gorman Beauchamp, 134, review of The Aeneid by Virgil, trans- Au 83 lated by Robert Fagles. Apologist, The, Michael McDonald, Sp 59 Pleasure out of Desperation, Brenda Wineap Arthur of Camelot (Arts), Jed Widmer, Su 115 ple, Wi 137, review of Portrait: The Life of \rTS: The Ballad in the Street, Alan Trachien Thomas Eakins by William S. McFeely. berg, Wi 121; The Edgy Optimist, Gene San Organized Violence, Charles Trueheart, Wi foro, Wi 125; When Maestros Were Maestros, 141, review of The War of the World: Twentieth- Janet Frank, Wi 130; What Happened to the Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Social Agenda?, Nathan Glazer, Sp 108; Glob- Niall Ferguson. alization and Its Discontents, Richard Locke, Poised Between the Ancient and the New, Sp 114; Arthur of Camelot, 7ed Widmer, Su Benjamin Balint, Wi 145, review of Isaac B. 115; The Short Reign of Fred Allen, Dennis Singer: A Lifeby Florence Noiville, translated Drabelle, Su 119; Good Thing Going, Wend from the French by Catherine Temerson. Smith, Au 109; Death on the Installment What if Nature Had Been Thrifty?, Daniel Plan, Jon Zobenica, Au 117 Reid, Wi 147, review of The Best of All Possi At Last, a Tribunal for Khmer Rouge Atrocities ble Worlds Viathematics and Destiny, by Ivar (LETTER FROM CAMBODIA), Dustin Roasa, Au 8 Ekeland. Going Native, Morris Dickstein, Wi 150. Balint, Benjamin, Poised Between the Ancient Happy Talk, Wayne Curtis, Sp 118, review of and the New (Books), Wi 145 The Happiness Vyth: Why What We Think Is Ballad in the Street, The (Arts) Alan Trachten Right 1s Wrong by Jennifer Michael Hecht berg, Wi 121 and Dancing in the Streets: A History of Colle Barrett, indrea, Tamarack State (FICTION), tive Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich. Su 1LO8 The Impulse to Exclude, Phyllis Rose, Sp Barth, John, The Judge’s Jokes, Sp 53 121, review of Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Beasley, Sandra, ed., WORKS IN PROGRESS: Wi 12; \rnold Rampersad. Sp 13; Su 14; Au 16; Dismantling the Dream Hearsay, Richard Restak, Sp 126, review of Books), Su 134 Viuses, Madmen, and Prophe ts: Rethinking the Beattie, Ann, Wheeling (FICTION), Wi 108 History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hal Beauchamp, Gorman, Apologies All Around, lucination by Daniel B. Smith Au 83 An Epic in Flux, Sudip Bose, Sp 129, review Begley, Louis, Cowboys and Indians (FICTION), of The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery Wi 114 of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Dam- Being Human (WORKS IN PROGRESS), Thomas ros¢ h. Mallon, Sp 14 Design Problem, Mary Beth Saffo, Sp 132, Bernard, André, ed., COMMONPLACE BOOK: Cele- review of The Tinkerer’s Accomplice: Hou Design Emerges from Life Itself by }. Scott Melvin Jules Bukiet, Sp 79; Wonder Bread, Turner. Au 22 War Weary, Wendy Smith, Sp 135. The Whirling Princess, Sandra M. Gilbert, Celebrations (COMMONPLACE BOOk), Andre Su 124, review of Edith Wharton by Bernard, ed., Wi 10 Hermione Lee. Chasing the Blues Away (LETTER FROM NEW The Heroic and the Crass, Gary Hart, Su ORLEANS), Lawrence N. Powell, Su 9 127, review of Presidential Courage: Brave Chervonnaya, Svetlana, and Kai Bird, The Mys- Leaders and How They Changed America tery of Ales, Su 20 1789-1989b y Michael Beschloss. Clausen, Christopher, Between Two Worlds, Wide World, Sarah Fay, Su 129, review of Su 380 Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for COMMONPLACE BOOK: André Bernard, ed., Cele- Politics by Rebecca Solnit. brations, Wi 10; Defeat, Sp 141; Scoundrels, The Meandering Naturalist, William Howarth, Su 142; Anne Matthews, ed., Homecomings, Su 131, review of A Wanderer All My Days: Au 140 John Muir in New Englanbyd ] . Parker Huber. Conflict and Culture (POETRY) Langdon Ham Magical Mind, Stephen Petranek, Su 133, mer, Wi 69 review of Einstein: His Life and Universe by Cook’s Son, The, Frank Huyler, Sp 69 Walter Isaacson. Cornerstones (EDITOR’S NOTE), Robert Wilson, Dismantling the Dream, Sandra Beasley, Su Au 4 134, review of The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Cowboys and Indians (FICTION), Louis Begley, (float in Winner-Take-All America by Daniel Wi 114 Curtis, Wayne, Happy Talk (Books), Sp 118 Brook. A Seductive Spectacle, Charles Trueheart, Su 137. Death on the Installment Plan (Arts), /on The Genius and Her Sanctuary, Catharine R. Zobenica, Au 117 Stimpson, Au 122, review of Two Lives: Defeat (COMMONPLACE BOOk), André Bernard, Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm. ed., Sp 141 Atonality and Beyond, Sudip Bose, Au 125, Deresiewicz, William, Love on Campus, Su 36 review of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Design Problem (Books), Mary Beth Saffo, Twentieth Century by Alex Ross. Sp 132 The Early End of Consensus, /i// Ogline, Au Dickstein, Morris, Going Native (BOOKS) , Wi 150 129, review of A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Dismantling the Dream (BOOKS). Sandra Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Beasley, Su 134 Presidential Campaign by Edward J. Larson. Drabelle, Dennis, The Short Reign of Fred Swept Away, Anthony Brandt, Au 131, review Allen (Arts), Su 119 of The Wreck of the Medusa by Jonathan Miles. Nurtural Intelligence, Richard Restak, Au Early End of Consensus, The (Books), /i// 133, review of What Is Intelligence?: Beyond the Ogline, Au 129 Flynn Effectb y James R. Flynn. Edgy Optimist, The (Arts), Gene Santoro, Words and Music, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Au Wi 125 135, review of The Stuff of Thought: Language Epiror’s Note: Robert Wilson, A Walk Around as a Window into Human Natur by Steven the Block, Wi 4; Reality Revisited, Sp 2: His- Pinker and Musicophilia: Tales of Music and tory Revisited, Su 4; Cornerstones, Au 4 the Brain by Oliver Sacks. Educated Guess, An, /?¢d Widmer, Wi 20 Bose, Sudip, An Epic in Flux (BOoks), Sp 129; Epic in Flux, An (Books), Sudip Bose, Sp 129 Atonality and Beyond (Books), Au 125 Esquith, Sam, WORKS IN PROGRESS: Wi 15: Sp Brandt, Anthony, Swept Away (Books), Au 131 17; Su 18 Bromell, Nick, Scooter and Me, Wi 56 Bukiet, Melvin Jules, One Day in the Life of Fay, Sarah, Wide World (Books), Su 129 146 Index Fear of Falling, james McConkey, Wi 78 Hammer, Langdon, Conflict and Culture Feldman, Noah, Higher Powers That Be (PoETRY), Wi 69; The Mind at Work and (WORKS IN PROGRESS), Wi 14 Play (PorTRY), Sp 44; Louise Gliick’s Italy FICTION: Wheeling, Ann Beattie, Wi 108; Cow- of the Mind (Poetry), Au 54 boys and Indians, Louis Begley, Wi 114; Happy Talk (Books), Wayne Curtis, Sp 118 North of Ordinary, John Rolfe Gardiner, Sp Hart, Gary, The Heroic and the Crass 94; Plum Creek, Laura Furman, Sp 104; The (Books), Su 127 House at Belle Fontaine, Lily Tuck, Su 98; Hearsay (Books), Richard Restak, Sp 126 Tamarack State, Andrea Barrett, Su 108; The Hecht, Jennifer Michael, Words and Music Nursery, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Au 94 (Books), Au 135 Filkins, Peter, Water Lilies (Poem), Wi 70 Heroic and the Crass, The (Books), Gary FINDINGS: Let the Parties Begin, Barbara B. Hart, Su 127 Oberg, Wi 160; The Scientist’s Fresh Eye, Higher Powers That Be, (WORKS IN PROGRESS), Richard E. Nicholls, Sp 144; Privacy Revealed, Noah Feldman, Wi ] t Richard E. Nicholls, Su 144; Amateurism, Historical Present, The (Books), A. £. Stallings, Richard E. Niu holls, Au 144 Wi 134 Fired, Emily Bernard, Wi 101 History Revisited (EDITOR’s NOTE), Robert Wil- Fishman, Ethan, Not Compassionate, Not Con- son, Su 4 servative, Wi 48; Unto Caesar, Au 36 Hollander, John, What’s on the Wall (Poem), Sp Forgetting (Poem), Robert Pinsky, Wi 76 16; Another Cause for Wonder (Poem), Sp Fragments of Paradise, Alberto Manguel, Su 91 19; Still and Yet (Poem), Sp 49; Typing Les- Frank, Janet, When Maestros Were Maestros son: A Little Fable (Poem), Sp 50; Toward (ArTS), Wi 130 the End (Poem), Sp 52 Furman, Laura, Plum Creek (FICTION), Sp 104 Homecomings (COMMONPLACE BOOK), Anne Viatthews, ed., Au 140 Gardiner, John Rolfe, North of Ordinary (Fic- House at Belle Fontaine, The (FICTION), Lil) TION), Sp 94 Luck, Su 98 Gazing into the Abyss, Christian Wiman, Su 61 Howarth, William, The Meandering Naturalist Genius and Her Sanctuary, The (BOoks), (Books), Su 13] Catharine R. Stimpson, Au 122 Hunters (Poem), Louise Gliick, Au 59 rilbert, Sandra M., The Whirling Princess Huyler, Frank, The Cook’s Son, Sp 69 (Books), Su 124 Glazer, Nathan, What Happened to the Social Impulse to Exclude, The (Books), Phyllis Rose, Agenda? (ARTS), Sp 108 Sp 121 Globalization and Its Discontents (ArRTs), Inshallah (TUNING Up), Cullen Munphy, Au 14 Richard Locke, Sp 114 In the Plaza (Poem), Louise Glitch, Au 58 Glorious Dust, Robert Roper, Wi 89 Glick, Louise, Threshing (Poem), Au 56; In Judge’s Jokes, The, John Barth, Sp 53 the Plaza (Poem), Au 58; Hunters (Poem), \u 59; Sunset (Poem), Au 60 Kaplan, Alice, Lady of the Lake, Au 71 Goetsch, Douglas, Poetry Stand, Au 61 Going Native (Books), Morns Dickstein, Wi Lady of the Lake, Alice Kaplan, Au 71 150 Lanza, Robert, ANew Theory of the Universe, Good Thing Going (Arts), Wendy Smith, Au 109 Sp 18 Graham, Elyse, WORKS IN PROGRESS: Sp 14; Su LETTER FROM CAMBODIA: At Last, a Tribunal for 19; Au 17 and 19 Khmer Rouge Atrocities, Dustin Roasa, Au 8 Group, The (LETTER FROM ISTANBUL), Suzanne LETTER FROM CaARACAs: Living Large on Oil, Scanlon, Wi 6 \lexandra Starr, Sp 7 Gutkind, Lee, Robo-Nation (WORKS IN PROG- LETTER FROM ISTANBUL: The Group, Suzanne RESS), Su 16 Scanlon, Wi 6 147 LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS: Chasing the Blues Nursery, The (FICTION), Kirsten Sundberg Lun- Away, Lawrence N. Powell, Su 9 strum, Au 94 LETTERS: Sp 4; Su 5; Au 5 (See also READER Nurtural Intelligence (Books), Richard Restak, REPLIES, THE) Au 133 Let the Parties Begin (FINDINGS), Barbara B. Oberg, Wi 160 Oberg, Barbara B., Let the Parties Begin (FINb- Living Large on Oil (LETTER FROM CARACAS), INGS) Wi 160 \lexandra Starr, Sp 7 Ochoa, Emily, WORKS IN PROGRESS: Au 20 Locke, Richard, Globalization and Its Discon- Ogline, jill, The Early End of Consensus tents (ARTS), Sp 114 (Books), Au 129 Louise Gliick’s Italy of the Mind (Porrry), One Day in the Life of Melvin Jules Bukiet, Langdon Hammer, Au 54 Melvin Jules Bukiet, Sp 79 Love on Campus, William Deresiewicz, Su 36 O Reilly, Caitriona, Netsuke (Poem), Wi 74 Lunstrum, Kirsten Sundberg, The Nursery (FIc- Organized Violence (BOOKS), Charles Tru TION), Au 94 heart, Wi 141 Orsi, Robert A., When 2 + 2 = 5, Sp 34 McConkey, James, Fear of Falling, Wi 78 VicDonald, Michael, The Apologist, Sp 59 Petranek, Stephen, Magical Mind (Books), Su 133 Magical Mind (Books), Stephen Petranek, Su 133 Pinsky, Robert, Forgetting (Poem), Wi 76 Mallon, Thomas, Being Human (WoRKS IN Pleasure out of Desperation (Books), Brenda PROGRESS), Sp 14 Wine appli , Wi 137 Manguel, Alberto, Fragments of Paradise, Su 91 Plum Creek (FICTION), Laura Furman, Sp 104 Viatthews, Anne, ed., COMMONPLACE BOOK: POETRY: Conflict and Culture, Langdon Ham- Homecomings, Au 140 mer, Wi 69; The Mind at Work and Play, Meandering Naturalist, The (Books), William Langdon Hammer, Sp 44; Louise Glick’s Howarth, Su 131 Italy of the Mind, Langdon Hammer, Au 54 ‘Mem, mem, mem,’ Pau! West, introduction by Poetry Stand, Douglas Goetsch, Au 61 Diane Ackerman, Su 66 Poised Between the Ancient and the New Mind at Work and Play, The (Porrry), Lang (Books), Benjamin Balint, Wi 145 don Hammer, Sp 44 Postcards from the Past, Richard kb. Nicholls, Murphy, Cullen, Inshallah (TUNING UP), Au 14 Wi 34 Mystery of Ales, The, Kai Bird and Svetlana Powell, Lawrence N., Chasing the Blues Away Chervonnaya, Su 20 (LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS), Su 9 Privacy Revealed (FINDINGS), Richard | Nelson, Marilyn, Nine Times Nine, on Awe Nicholls, Su | 1-4 (Poem), Wi 71 Netsuke (Poem), Caitriona O'Reilly, Wi 74 R & R (Poem), David Softeld, Su 60 New Theory of the Universe, A, Robert Lanza, READER REPLIES, THE: Wi 156 (See also LETTERS) Sp 18 Reality Revisited (Epiror’s Nore), Robert Wil Nicholls, Richard k., Postcards from the Past, son. Sp 2 Wi 34; The Scientist’s Fresh Eye (FINDINGS) Red-Pen Patriots, (WORKS IN PROGRESS), Larry / Sp 144; Privacy Revealed (FINDINGS), Su Sabato, Sp 14 144; Amateurism (FINDINGS), Au 144 Reid, Daniel, What if Nature Had Been Nichols, William, The Trojan War, Au 45 Thrifty? (Books), Wi 147 Nine Times Nine, on Awe (Poem), Marilyn Remember Statecraft?, Dennis Ross, Su 47 Ni lson, \W l7 1 Restak, Richard, Hearsay (BOOKs) Sp 126; North of Ordinary (Fiction), John Rolfe Gar Nurtural Intelligence (Books), Au 133 diner, Sp Q4 Roasa, Dustin, At Last, a Tribunal for Khmer Not Compassionate, Not Conservative, than Rouge Atrocities (LETTER FROM CAMBODIA), Fishman, Wi 48 Au 8 145 Inde x Robo-Nation, (WORKS IN PROGRESS), Le Wi 141; A Seductive Spectacle (Books), Gutkind, Su 16 Su 137 Roper, Robert, Glorious Dust, Wi 89 luck, Lily, The House at Belle Fontaine (Fic- Rose, Phyllis, The Impulse to Exclude (Books), TION), Su 98 Sp 12] TUNING UP: Inshallah, Cullen Murphy, Au 14 Ross, Dennis, Remember Statecraft?, Su 47 Typing Lesson: A Little Fable (Poem), John Hollander, Sp 50 Sabato, Larry ]., Red-Pen Patriots (WORKS IN PROGRESS), Au 18 Unto Caesar, than Fishman, Au 36 Saffo, Mary Beth, Design Problem (BOOKks), Sp 132 Walk Around the Block, A (EpITOR’s NOTE), Santoro, Gene, The Edgy Optimist (Arts), Robert Wilson, Wi 4 Wi 125 War Weary (BOoKs), Wé nd) Smith, Sp 135 Scanlon, Suzanne, The Group (LETTER FROM Water Lilies (Poem), Peter Filkins, Wi 70 ISTANBUL), Wi 6 West, Paul, ‘Mem, mem, mem,’ introduction Scientist’s Fresh Eye, The (FINDINGS), Richard by Diane Ackerman, Su 66 i. Nicholls, Sp 144 What Happened to the Social Agenda? Scooter and Me, Nick Bromell, Wi 56 (Arts), Nathan Glazer, Sp 108 Scoundrels (COMMONPLACI 300K), Andre What if Nature Had Been Thrifty? (Books), Bernard, Su | }2 Daniel Reid, Wi 147 Seductive Spectacle, A (BOOks), Charles Tru What’s on the Wall (Poem), John Hollander, heart, Su 137 Sp 16 Short Reign of Fred Allen, The (Arts), Dennis Wheeling (FICTION), Ann Beattie, Wi 108 Drabelle, Su 119 When Maestros Were Maestros (Arts), /anel Smith, Wendy, War Weary (Books), Sp 135; Frank, Wi 130 Good Thing Going (AkTs), Au 109 When 2 + 2 = 5, Robert A. Orsi, Sp 34 Sofield, David, Staging (Poem), Su 58; R & R Whirling Princess, The (BOOKS), Sandra M. (Poem), Su 60 Gilbert, Su 124 Staging (Poem), David Sofield, Su 58 Wide World (Books), Sarah Fay, Su 129 Stallings, A. £., The Historical Present (Books), Widmer, Ted, An Educated Guess, Wi 20: Wi 134 Arthur of Camelot (Arts), Su 115 Starr, Alexandra, Living Large on Oil (LETTER Wilson, Robert, Epiror’s NOTE: A Walk Around FROM CARACAS), Sp 7 the Block, Wi 4; Reality Revisited, Sp 2; His- Still and Yet (Poem), John Hollander, Sp 49 tory Revisited, Su 4; Cornerstones, Au 4 Stimpson, Catharine R., The Genius and Her Wiman, Christian, Gazing into the Abyss, Su 61 Sanctuary (Books), Au 122 Wineapple, Brenda, Pleasure out of Despera- Sunset (Poem), Louise Gliick, Au 60 tion (Books), Wi 137 Swept Away (Books), inthony Brandt, Au 131 Wist, Sara, WORKS IN PROGRESS: Au 17 Wonder Bread, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Au 22 Tamarack State (FICTION), Andrea Barrett, Su 108 Words and Music (Books), Jennifer Michael Threshing (Poem), Louise Gliick, Au 56 Hecht, Au 135 Toward the End (Poem), John Hollander, Sp 52 WORKS IN PROGRESS: Sandra Beasley, ed., Wi 12: lrachtenbere, Alan, The Ballad in the Street Sp 13; Su 14; Au 16 (ArTS), Wi 12] Trojan War, The, William Nichols, Au 45 Zobenica, Jon, Death on the Installment Plan lrueheart, Charles, Organized Violence (BOOks), (Arts), Au 117