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Vol. 78 Nbr. 3, June 2009

A Letter to M.A. Who Lives Far Away.

FOUR POEMS - Poem

Any way you slice it: Sundays at the community oven aren't just about the pizza.

Barbarian virtues: when Americans firs yearned to transform themselves and save the world.

Blue-collar brilliance: questioning assumptions about intelligence, work, and social class.

Computers cleared.

Letters - Letter to the editor

Double take.

Works In Progress

Driving to the moon.

FICTION

Enough already: what I'd really like to tell the bores in my life.

Evolution's purpose.

Letters - Letter to the editor

Friends and letters.

Letters - Letter to the editor

Gary Snyder's long view.

POETRY

Gross anatomy: a physician's inside stories about the human body.

'Carrying the Heart: Exploring the Worlds within Us' - Book review

Hypocrisy.

Commonplace Book

IKEA satellites.

Works In Progress

Jungle Bungle: as a rubber baron, Henry Ford was no firestone.

Not ready for Mt. Rushmore: reconciling the myth of Ronald Reagan with the reality.

On the road again.

Works In Progress

Parkman Prize--winner Jared Farmer reflects on writing the biography of a landform.

Point of Departure

Pilgrim of eternity: the loves and legends of Lord Byron.

Precautions inutiles.

Fiction

Remembering John Updike: a critic and his decades-long correspondence with one of America's best 'freelance writers'.

Sesquicentennial excess: must we erase evidence of later commemorations at Civil War sites?

Tuning Up

Shock waves: a blast in Baghdad tests the endurance of a soldier and his family.

Siberian Outpost.

FOUR POEMS - Poem

Spring fever.

Letters - Letter to the editor

Star Picture Tipi of Black Magpie.

Poem

Stories in the Night.

FOUR POEMS - Poem

The best of all possible cafes.

Works In Progress

The devil you know: keeping the peace in Ramadi calls for a little moral dexterity.

The lost village: a Palestinian poet remembers the people and places he has lived without.

The meaning behind the lines: how Ibsen's toughness and Chekhov's tenderness transformed American playwriting and acting.

Theater

The unkindest cut.

Letters - Letter to the editor

The uses of re-enchantment.

Works In Progress

Titanium-strength outerwear.

Works In Progress

War stories.

EDITOR'S NOTE

Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany.

FOUR POEMS - Poem

Words apart: a writer in Quebec finds that language creates an unbridgeable divide.