American Scholar articles from March 2007

American Scholar archives from March 2007

Reality revisited.
March 22, 2007

The scholar at 75.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2007

Pseudo-conservatism on trial.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2007

On creative writing programs.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2007

Living large on oil.
March 22, 2007

A new theory of the universe: biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the equation.
March 22, 2007

When 2 + 2 = 5: can we begin to think about unexplained religious experiences in ways that acknowledge their existence?
March 22, 2007

The mind at work and play: exploring the wonder of the world--and what comes next.
March 22, 2007

What's on the Wall.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2007

Another Cause for Wonder.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2007

Still and Yet.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2007

Typing Lesson: A Little Fable.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2007

Toward the End.(Poetry)(Poem)
March 22, 2007

The judge's jokes: shards of memory, for better or worse, from my father the after--banquet speaker.
March 22, 2007

The apologist: the celebrated Austrian writer Peter Handke appeared at the funeral of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. Should we forgive him?
March 22, 2007

The cook's son: the death of a young man, long ago in Africa, continues to raise questions with no answers.(Short story)
March 22, 2007

One day in the life of Melvin Jules Bukiet: a Manhattan writer runs afoul of the penal system and lives to tell the tale.(Personal account)
March 22, 2007

North of ordinary.(Short story)
March 22, 2007

Plum Creek.(Short story)
March 22, 2007

What happened to the social agenda? Leading modernists once wanted to improve the lives of everyday people; star architects today hope to astonish and amuse their elite clients.
March 22, 2007

Globalization and its discontents: the directors of Babel and Cache tell complex stories of families caught in ever-expanding worlds.
March 22, 2007

Happy talk: what did we know about joy, and when did we know it?(The Happiness Myth Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong)(Dancing in the Streets a History of Collective Joy)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... THE HAPPINESS MYTH Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong By Jennifer Michael Hecht HarperSanFrancisco $24.95 DANCING IN THE STREETS A History of Collective Joy By Barbara Ehrenreich Metropolitan Books $26 The happiness industrial complex...

The impulse to exclude: Ralph Ellison wrote one great novel and then lived a life that is hard to admire.(Ralph Ellison A Biography)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... RALPH ELLISON A Biography By Arnold Rompersad Alfred& Knopf $35 Ralph Ellison became famous in 1952 with the publication of Invisible Man, which remained for some 30 years the most widely read and respected novel by an African-American...

Hearsay: from the divinely inspired to the pathological, a history of auditory hallucination.(Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination )(Book review)
March 22, 2007

An epic in flux: Gilgamesh, the world's first great literaly work, is still being pieced together.(The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh)(Book review)
March 22, 2007

Design problem: does the internal physiology of animals imply a harmony of structure and function?(The Tinkerer's Accomplice How Design Emerges from Life Itself)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... THE TINKERER'S ACCOMPLICE How Design Emerges from Life Itself By J. Scott Turner Cambridge | $27.95 The biologist Ward Watt once wrote that "adaptation is a central but troublesome concept ill evolutionary biology." It might say something...

War weary: if Iraq is not another Vietnam, why do I find myself rereading Dispatches?(Book review)
March 22, 2007

Defeat.(Commonplace Book)
March 22, 2007

The scientist's fresh eye.
March 22, 2007