Spring 2010

Articles

Solitude and Leadership

William Deresiewicz

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts

Reading in a Digital Age

Sven Birkerts

Notes on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary

Nabokov Lives On

Brian Boyd

Why his unfinished novel, Laura, deserved to be published; what’s left in the voluminous archive of his unpublished work

They Get to Me

Jessica Love

A young psycholinguist confesses her strong attraction to pronouns

When the Light Goes On

Mike Rose

How a great teacher can bring a receptive mind to life

To Die of Having Lived

Richard Rapport

A neurological surgeon reflects on what patients and their families should and should not do when the end draws near

Fiction

Ice

Lily Tuck

Poetry

God's Toys: Alfred Corn

Langdon Hammer

Four Poems

Alfred Corn

Arts

Beethoven Visits Cleveland

Harvey Sachs

In 1958, the Colossus speaks to an 11-year-old boy

Auteurs Gone Wild

Alex Rose

Why the director's cut often turns into an ax murder