Table Of ContentInvdEx TO Votume 70
The abbreviations preceding page numbers designate the season in 2001 in which the issue appeared:
Wi = Winter, Sp = Spring, Su = Summer, Au = Autumn
Aaron, Daniel, Northampton, Sp 71 Blake, Casey Nelson, The Big Bang (Books), Su 148
Aborted Project, An (JOURNAL), Doris Grum- Boaz Asleep (Poem), Victor Hugo (tr. Brooks
bach, Wi 133 Haxton), Au 66
Above Settle (Poem), Lola Haskins, Sp 38 Books: Wi 136; Sp 140; Su 134; Au 138
Adell, Tim, The Musicians Play Basketball Paradox on the Grand Scale, Adam Kirsch,
(Poem), 74 Wi 142, review of The Complete Letters of Oscar
A. FE. (Anne Fadiman), LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: Wilde, edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert
Too Close to Call Wi 2; The Deed of Gift, Hart-Davis.
Sp 2; The Seanachie, Su 2; The Long View, Museum of Nations, Jennifer Schuessler, Wi
Au 2 145, review of Highlanders: A Journey to the
Alexander Pamela, Bags (Poem), Su 47 Caucasus in Quest of Memory by Yo’av Karny.
Alvarez, A., Opium (THE PopiuM), Sp 160 Mr. Bellow’s Planet, Sanford Pinsker, Wi 149,
Anti-Jefferson, The: Why Robert Carter III review of Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas.
Freed His Slaves (And Why We Couldn’t Math at 98.6°, John Allen Paulos, Wi 151, re-
Care Less), Andrew Levy, Sp 15 view of Where Mathematics Comes From by
“Are You Doing Any Poetry With Them?” (THE George Lakoff and Rafael Nunez.
PopiuM), Seamus Heaney, Au 160 The Perforated Hymn, Sunil Iyengar, Wi 153,
AT LARGE AND AT SMALL: Moving, Philonoé, review of Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation by
Wi 5; The Row to Zanzibar, Thomas Mallon, Stephen Mitchell.
Sp 5; Loving and Hating Simone Weil, On the Money Trail, Deirdre McCloskey,
Francine du Plessix Gray, Su 5; No Step, Sp 142, review of The Cash Nexus: Money and
Nicholson Baker, Au 5 Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 by
Niall Ferguson.
Bags (Poem), Pamela Alexander, Su 47 The Scholar as Hero, Tamara Griggs, Sp 145,
Baker, Nicholson, No Step (AT LARGE AND AT review of Peiresc’s Europe: Learning and Virtue
SMALL), Au 5 in the Seventeenth Century by Peter N. Miller.
Barnes, Kate, The Story She Knew (Poem), Soft Exoticism, Chris Mooney, Sp 148, review
Sp 36; The Last Week in May (Poem), Sp 37 of Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of
Barzun, Jacques, Three Men and a Book, Su 49 Exotics in America by Kim Todd.
Beastly Century, A (THE PopiuM), Margaret The Elusive Gods, Rachel Hadas, Sp 150, re-
Drabile, Wi 160 view of Literature and the Gods by Roberto
Beauty Myths (Books), Evelyn Toynton, Au 143 Calasso, translated by Tim Parks.
Bernard, André, ed., COMMONPLACE BOOK: Tran- You Want Fries with That? Andrey Slivka,
sitions, Wi 10; Poetry, Sp 12; Water, Su 12; Sp 152, review of Fast Food Nation: The Dark
Ritual, Au 8 Side of the All-American Meal by Eric
Bethell, John T., Seventy Years of The American Schlosser.
Scholar: A Chrestomathy, Au |1 Eternal Africa, George Packer, Su 140, review
Big Bang, The (Books), Casey Nelson Blake, Su 148 of The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard
Big Bard (Poem), John Updike, Au 40 Kapuscinski, translated from the Polish by
Birding in the Dark, Jonathan Rosen, Au 101 Klara Glowczewska.
Birkerts, Suen, Love’s Wound, Love’s Salve (RE- Dung, Diet, and Art, Cristina Nehring, Su 143,
READING), Au 132 review of Coleridge, the Hutchinsons © the
Bishop’s Theory Revisited, The (Poem), jean Wordsworths in 1802 by John Worthen.
Hollander, Sp 100 Weird Science, Aaron E. Hirsh, Su 146, review
THE AMERICAN S ¢
of The Shattered Self: The End of Natural Evolu- Diary of a Poem (JOURNAL), Andrew Hudgins,
tion by Pierre Baldi. Su 127
The Big Bang, Casey Nelson Blake, Su 148, Djanikian, Gregory, Something to Think About
review of The Metaphysical Club: A Story of (Poem), Sp 90
Ideas in America by Louis Menand. Donnelly, Susan, Tide (Poem), Sp 70
Off the Beat, David Hajdu, Su 152, review of Doyle, Brian, Van, Su 59
Living With Music: Ralph Ellison’s Jazz Writings Drabble, Margaret, A Beastly Century (THE Po-
edited by Robert G. O’Meally. DIUM), Wi 160
The Next Next Thing, Alex Soojuny-Kim Driving Myself Sane, 7im Morris, Sp 39
Pang, Au 138, review of Emergence: The Con- Dung, Diet, and Art (Books), Cristina Nehring,
nected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software Su 143
by Steven Johnson. Dyer, Geoff, Fitzgerald’s Afterglow (REREADING),
Beauty Myths, Evelyn Toynton, Au 143, review Sp 136
of Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in
Twentieth-Century Art by Wendy Steiner. Eady, Cornelius, How To Do (Poem), Su 30;
Sorrow, Rage, Bitterness, John Freeman, John Henry’s Hammer (Poem), Su 32
Au 145, review of Richard Wright: The Life and Egemo, Constance, Trio (Poem), Su 76
Times by Hazel Rowley. Ehrlich, Gretel, Santa Rosa Island, 1998 (Jour-
The Whisper of the Day, Andrew Burstein, NAL), 129
Au 148, review of Affairs of Honor: National Elusive Gods, The (Books), Rachel Hadas, Sp 150
Politics in the New Republic by Joanne B. Free- Elvis Movies, Mark Feeney, Wi 53
man. Emmons, Jeanne, Selling the Old Piano (Poem),
Brosman, Catharine Savage, Desert, Sp 111 Su 102
Burnett, D. Graham, The Mass in Spanish: End of Linguistics, The: Taking the Language
Words and the Word, Su 15 Back from Nature—and Linguists, Mark
Burstein, Andrew, The Whisper of the Day Halpern, Wi 13
(Books), Au 148 Eternal Africa (Books), George Packer, Su 140
Cambridge, March 1900 (JOURNAL), selections by Fadiman, Anne (A.F:), LETTER FROM THE EDITOR:
Lewis B. Day, Sp 129 Too Close to Call, Wi 2;'The Deed of Gift,
Case of Thomas Carlyle, The: Published Let- Sp 2; The Seanachie, Su 2; The Long View,
ters, Private Life, and the Limits of Knowl- Au 2. (Philonoé) Moving (AT LARGE AND Al
edge, Rochelle Gurstein, Su 77 SMALL), Wi 5
Clausen, Christopher, The Great Queen Died, Wi 41 Fallon, Michael, A Matter of Definition (Poem),
Collins, Billy, The Return of the Key (Poem), Au 38 Sp 92
Collins, Martha, Winter Sun (Poem), Wi 40 Fat, Spencer Nadler, Sp 83
Come As You Are Not Party, The, Natalia Feeney, Mark, Elvis Movies, Wi 53
Rachel Singer, Su 91 Felinus (Poem),/ . S. A. Lowe, Su 90
COMMONPLACE BOOK, André Bernard, ed., Transi- Fincke, Gary, Writing Letters for the Blind
tions, Wi 10; Poetry, Sp 12; Water, Su 12; (Poem), Sp 102
Ritual, Au 8 Fitzgerald’s Afterglow (REREADING), Geoff Dyer,
Croneberg, Lisa, A Voice (Up Comes), (Poem), Sp 136
Wi 114 Fragment (Poem), Judith Robbins, Wi 50
Freedman, Morris, The Oracular F. R. Leavis, Sp 93
Day, Lewis B., Cambridge, March 1900 (Jour- Freeman, John, Sorrow, Rage, Bitterness (BOOKS),
NAL), Sp 129 Au 145
Deed of Gift, The (LETTER FROM THE EDITOR),
A. F. (Anne Fadiman), Sp 2 Gay, Ruth, How Does It Come Out?, Wi 109
Dennis, Carl, Socrates and I (Poem), Au 98 Getchell, Charles, Home from Bohemia (Poem),
Desert, Catharine Savage Brosman, Sp 111 Wi 80
Diamonds of Neptune, The, Geoff Shandler, Getting and Spending: Nostalgia for the Old
Au 87 Way of Reading Poetry, Phyllis Rose, Au 79
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Index
Getting Involved (Poem), Henri Michaux (tr. Hugo, Victor (tr. Brooks Haxton), Boaz Asleep
Sydney Lea), Wi 95 (Poem), Au 66
Getting to Roger, William Loizeaux, Au 113
God Within, The (Poem), Rachel Hadas, Su 48 In Defense of Fainting, William Loizeaux, Wi 27
Grafton, Anthony, The Public Intellecual and In Praise of Indolence (THE PODIUM), Garrison
the American University: Robert Morss Keillor, Su 160
Lovett Revisited, Au 41 In the Forum (Poem), Sue Standing, Wi 113
Grave Robbing (THE UNCERTAIN ART), Sherwin Iyengar, Sunil, The Perforated Hymn (Books),
B. Nuland, Sp 125 Wi 153
Gray, Francine du Plessix, Loving and Hating
Simone Weil (AT LARGE AND AT SMALL), Su 5 James, Jamie, A House in Bali, Su 113
Great Books, The (THE UNCERTAIN ART), John Henry’s Hammer (Poem), Cornelius Eady,
Sherwin B. Nuland, Au 125 Su 32
Great Dissident Cuban Poet Dies in Exile at JOURNAL: An Aborted Project, Doris Grumbach,
Auburn University, The (Poem), Virgil Wi 133; Cambridge, March 1900, selections by
Suarez, Su 58 Lewis B. Day, Sp 129; Diary of a Poem, An-
Great Queen Died, The, Christopher Clausen, Wi 41 drew Hudgins, Su 127; Santa Rosa Island,
Griggs, Tamara, The Scholar as Hero (Books), 1998, Gretel Liivlich, Au 129
Sp 145
Grumbach, Doris, An Aborted Project (JOUuR- Keillor, Garrison, In Praise of Indolence (THE
NAL), Wi 133 PopiuM), Su 160
Gurstein, Rochelle, The Case of Thomas Carlyle: Kirsch, Adam, Paradox on the Grand Scale
Published Letters, Private Life, and the Lim- (Books), Wi 142
its of Knowledge, Su 77 Krystal, Arthur, Why Smart People Believe in
God, Au 69
Hadas, Rachel, The Elusive Gods (Books),
Sp 150; The God Within (Poem), Su 48 Last Week in May, The (Poem), Kate Barnes,
Hajdu, David, Off the Beat (Books), Su 152 Sp 37
Halpern, Mark, The End of Linguistics: Taking Lea, Sydney, translations of three poems by
the Language Back from Nature—and Lin- Henri Michaux: A Prudent Man, Wi 94, Get-
guists, Wi 13 ting Involved, Wi 95, and My Statues, Wi 96
Hammond, Jeffrey, Ohio States, Su 33 Lepore, Jill,W igwam Words, Wi 97
Hampl, Patricia, Relics of Saint Katherine (RE- LETTER FROM THE EpITOR: Too Close to Call,
READING), Su 134 A. F (Anne Fadiman), Wi 2; The Deed of
Happy Trails to All, James McConkey, Au 55 Gift, A. FE (Anne Fadiman), Sp 2; The Sea-
Harries, Owen, A Long Time Between Murders, nachie, A. F (Anne Fadiman), Su 2; The Long
Wi 71 View, A. F (Anne Fadiman), Au 2
Haskins, Lola, Above Settle (Poem), Sp 38 Levy, Andrew, The Anti-Jefferson: Why Robert
Haxton, Brooks, translation of Boaz Asleep Carter III Freed His Slaves (And Why We
(Poem) by Victor Hugo, Au 66 Couldn’t Care Less), Sp 15
Heaney, Seamus, “Are You Doing Any Poetry Library of Robinson Crusoe, The, Alberto
With Them?” (THE Popium), Au 160 Manguel, Wi 61
Hirsh, Aaron E., Weird Science (Books), Su 146 Loizeaux, William, In Defense of Fainting,
Hollander, Jean, The Bishop’s Theory Revisited Wi 27; Getting to Roger, Au 113
(Poem), Sp 100 Long Time Between Murders, A, Owen Harries,
Home from Bohemia (Poem), Charles Getchell, Wi 71
Wi 80 Long View, The (LETTER FROM THE EpITOR),
House in Bali, A, /amie James, Su 113 A. FE. (Anne Fadiman), Au 2
How Does it Come OQut?, Ruth Gay, Wi 109 Lopate, Phillip, The Worldly Stendhal (REREAD-
How To Do (Poem), Cornelius Eady, Su 30 ING), Wi 136
Hudgins, Andrew, Diary of a Poem (JOURNAL), Love’s Wound, Love’s Salve (REREADING), Sven
Su 127 Birkerts, Au 132
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
Loving and Hating Simone Weil (AT LARGE Body, and the Doctor, Su 123; The Great
AND AT SMALL), Francine du Plessix Gray, Su 5 Books, Au 125
Lowe,J . S. A., Felinus (Poem), Su 90
Lowe, John, Soji-ji, Wi 87 Off the Beat (Books), David Hajdu, Su 152
Ohio States, Jeffrey Hammond, Su 33
McCloskey, Deirdre, On the Money Trail (Books), Old Age and Frustration, Harold Orlans, Wi
Sp 142 115
McConkey, James, Happy Trails to All, Au 55 On the Money Trail (Books), Deirdre McCloskey,
Mallon, Thomas, The Row to Zanzibar (A1 Sp 142
LARGE AND AT SMALL), Sp 5 Opium (THE Popium), A. Alvarez, Sp 160
Manguel, Alberto, The Library of Robinson Oracular F. R. Leavis, The, Morris Freedman,
Crusoe, Wi 61 Sp 93
Mass in Spanish, The: Words and the Word, D Orlans, Harold, Old Age and Frustration, Wi 115
Graham Burnett, Su 15
Math at 98.6° (Books), John Allen Paulos, Wi 151 Packer, George, Eternal Africa (BOOKS), Su 140
Matter of Definition, A, (Poem), Michael Pang, Alex Soojung-Kim, The Next Next Thing
Fallon, Sp 92 (Books), Au 138
Mendeleev’s Garden, Oliver Sacks, Au 21 Paradox on the Grand Scale (Books), Adam
Michaux, Henri, (tr. Sydney Lea): A Prudent Man Kirsch, Wi 142
(Poem), Wi 94; Getting Involved (Poem) Paulos, John Allen, Math at 98.6° (Books),
Wi 95; My Statues (Poem), Wi 96 Wi 151
Mind, Body, and the Doctor (THE UNCERTAIN Perforated Hymn, The (Books), Sunil lyengar,
ArT), Sherwin B. Nuland, Su 123 Wi 153
Missing Links: A Scientist Reconstructs Biog- Philonoé, Moving (AT LARGE AND AT SMALL), Wi 5
raphy, Pat Shipman, Wi 81 Pinsker, Sanford, Mr. Bellow’s Planet (Books),
Monahan, Jean, Rorschach’s Rejected Blot Wi 149
(Poem), Su 29 PopiuM, THE: A Beastly Century, Margaret
Mooney, Chris, Soft Exoticism (Books), Sp 148 Drabble, Wi 160; Opium, A. Alvarez, Sp 160;
Morris, Tim, Driving Myself Sane, Sp 39 In Praise of Indolence, Garrison Keillor,
Moving (AT LARGE AND AT SMALL), Philonoé, Wi 5 Su 160; “Are You Doing Any Poetry With
Mr. Bellow’s Planet (Books), Sanford Pinsker, Them?” Seamus Heaney, Au 160
Wi 149 Poetry (COMMONPLACE BOOK), André Bernard,
Muldoon, Paul, Winter Wheat (Poem), Au 112 ed., Sp 12
Museum of Nations (Books), Jennifer Schues- Prudent Man, A (Poem), Henri Michaux (tr.
sler, Wi 145 Sydney Lea), Wi 94
Musicians Play Basketball, The (Poem), 7im Public Intellectual and the American Univer-
Adell, Su 74 sity, The: Robert Morss Lovett Revisited, An-
My Statues (Poem), Henri Michaux, (tr. Sydney thony Grafton, Au 41
Lea), Wi 96 _
Rattlesnake Country (Poem), Melvin Wilk,
Nadler, Spencer, Fat, Sp 83 Su 104
Nehring, Cristina, Dung, Diet, and Art (Books), Reader, The (Poem), Mary Jo Salter, Au 100
Su 143 READER REPLIES, THE: Wi 157; Sp 155; Su 155;
Never Trust a Memoirist: Ben Franklin and the Au 15]
Autobiography, Stacy Schiff, Sp 63 Relics of Saint Katherine (REREADING), Patricia
Next Next Thing, The (Books), Alex Soojung- Hampl, Su 134
Kim Pang, Au 138 REREADING: The Worldly Stendhal, Phillip
Northampton, Daniel Aaron, Sp 71 Lopate, Wi 136; Fitzgerald’s Afterglow, Geoff
No Step (At LARGE AND AP SMALL), Nicholson Dyer, Sp 136; Relics of Saint Katherine,
Baker, Au 5 Patricia Hampl, Su 134; Love’s Wound,
Nuland, Sherwin B., THE UNCERTAIN ART: Writ- Love’s Salve, Sven Birkerts, Au 132
ing, Wi 129; Grave Robbing, Sp 125; Mind, Return of the Key, The (Poem), Billy Collins, Au 38
Index
Ritual (COMMONPLACE BOOK), André Bernard, Story She Knew, The (Poem), Kate Barnes,
ed., Au8 Sp 36
Robbins, Judith, Fragment (Poem), Wi 50 Suarez, Virgil, The Great Dissident Cuban Poet Dies
Rorschach’s Rejected Blot (Poem), /Jean in Exile at Auburn University (Poem), Su 58
Vionahan, Su 29
Rose, Phyllis, Getting and Spending: Nostalgia Three Men and a Book, Jacques Barzun, Su 49
for the Old Way of Reading Poetry, Au 79 Tide (Poem), Susan Donnelly, Sp 70
Rosen, Jonathan, Birding in the Dark, Au 101 Tired Blood (Poem), Kay Ryan, Wi 39
Row to Zanzibar, The (AT LARGE AND AT Too Close to Call (LETTER FROM THE EpITOorR),
SMALL), Thomas Mallon, Sp 5 A. F. (Anne Fadiman), Wi 2
Ryan, Kay, Still Life, with Her Things (Poem), Toynton, Evelyn, Beauty Myths (Books), Au 143
Wi 38; Tired Blood (Poem), Wi 39 Transitions (COMMONPLACE Book), André Ber-
nard, ed., Wi 10
Sacks, Oliver, Mendeleev’s Garden, Au 2] Trio (Poem), Constance Egemo, Su 76
Salter, Mary Jo, The Reader (Poem), Au 100 Troping Through Proverbia, Bert O. States, Su 105
Santa Rosa Island, 1998 (JOURNAL), Gretel
Ehrlich, Au 129 UNCERTAIN ART, THE: Sherwin B. Nuland: Writ-
Schiff, Stacy, Never Trust a Memoirist: Ben ing, Wi 129; Grave Robbing, Sp 125; Mind,
Franklin and the Autobiography, Sp 63 Body, and the Doctor, Su 123; The Great
Scholar as Hero, The (Books) Jamara Greggs, Books, Au 125
Sp 145 Updike, John, Big Bard (Poem), Au 40
Schuessler, Jennifer, Museum of Nations
(Books), Wi 145 Van, Brian Doyle, Su 59
Schwendener, Peter, We Are All Bohemians Now, Voice (Up Comes), A (Poem), Lisa Croneberg,
Sp 103 Wi 114
Seanachie, The (LETTER FROM THE EDITOR),
1. & (Anne Fadiman), Su 2 Water (COMMONPLACE BOOK), André Bernard,
Selling the Old Piano (Poem), Jeanne Emmons, ed., Su 12
Su 102 We Are All Bohemians Now, Peter Schwendener,
Sp 103
Seshadri, Vijay, Which Side Are You On, Boys?,
Sp 49 Weird Science (BOOKS), Aaron E. Hirsh, Su 146
Seventy Years of The American Scholar: A Chres- Which Side Are You On, Boys?, Vijay Seshadn,
tomathy, selections by John T. Bethell, Au 11 Sp 49
Shandler, Geoff; The Diamonds of Neptune, Au 87 Whisper of the Day, The (BOOks), Andrew
Shipman, Pat, Missing Links: A Scientist Recon- Burstein, Au 148
structs Biography, Wi 81 Why Smart People Believe in God, Arthur
Singer, Natalia Rachel, The Come As You Are Krystal, Au 69
Not Party, Su 91 Wigwam Words, /i// Lepore, Wi 97
Slivka, Andrey, You Want Fries with That? Wilk, Melvin, Rattlesnake Country (Poem),
(BOOKS). Sp 152 Su 104
Socrates and I (Poem), Carl Dennis, Au 98 Winter Sun (Poem), Martha Collins, Wi 40
Soft Exoticism (BOoOKs), Chris Mooney, Sp 148 Winter Wheat (Poem), Paul Muldoon, Au 112
Soji-ji, John Lowe, Wi 87 Worldly Stendhal, The (REREADING), Phillip
Something to Think About (Poem), Gregory Lopate, Wi 136
Djanikian, Sp 90 Writing (THE UNCERTAIN ART), Sherwin B.
Sorrow, Rage, Bitterness (BOOKs), John Free- Nuland, Wi 129
man, Au 145 Writing Letters for the Blind (Poem), Gary
Standing, Sue, In the Forum (Poem), Wi 113 Fincke, Sp 102
States, Bert O., Teoping Through Proverbia, Su 105
Still Life, with Her Things (Poem), Kay Ryan, You Want Fries with That? (BOOKS), Andrey
Wi 38 Slivka, Sp 152
