2007: Extreme Weather Advisory

Global warming’s effects in the North Atlantic and beyond
Kerry Emanuel

2005: Reforming Health Care

The ideas that informed the current health care debate

2005: The Power and the Glory

Myths of American exceptionalism
Howard Zinn

2002: Feminist Icons in Love

The romantic obsessions of Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marguerite Duras
Vivian Gornick

2000: The Wound and the Dream

In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives alongside political disaster.
Patrick Erouart-Siad

1997: Going Public

David Donnelly, Janice Fine, and Ellen S. Miller on campaign finance reform
Senator Russ Feingold responds.

1992: On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack

Eugene Rivers’s appeal to African-American intellectuals, and a discussion with Kwame Anthony Appiah, Margaret Burnham, Henry Louis Gates Jr., bell hooks, Glenn Loury, Cornel West, and Rivers.

1989: A Walk into Darkness

The repression of Iranian women
Betty Sosnin

1983: The Eye of the Outsider

Elizabeth Bishop’s collected poems
Adrienne Rich

1977: Borges on the Right

In his later years, Jorge Luis Borges transformed from “invisible biographer” into unlikely spokesman for Argentina’s military dictatorship.
Katherine Singer Kovacs

1976: An Interview with Grace Paley

The author and poet on her creative process and the world that inspired her.
Gail Pool and Shirley Roses

1975: An Interview with Susan Sontag

In our first issue, Susan Sontag discusses the consequences of seeing through a photographic lens.
Geoffrey Movius