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  • The American Scholar23 min readMusic
    Anchoring Shards of Memory
    JOSEPH HOROWITZ is the author of 13 books exploring the American musical experience. His Naxos documentary €lms include Charles Ives’ America. As director of the NEH-funded “Music Unwound” consortium, he has initiated Ives sesquicentennial celebratio
    The American Scholar4 min read
    From: “Gravity Archives”
    1. Jetlagged visitor in London dark awry with first light catastrophic: tender welts and bruises, smears of iodine, bare bones scraped fleshless, fallen anyhow. What disaster fell and welters out of sight? But day distracts. Cold tube train wheels sq
    The American Scholar4 min read
    Commonplace Book
    My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. —Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions, 1973 Some 260 species of owls exist today. … There are Chocolate Boobooks and Bare-legged Owls, Powerful Owls and Fearful Owls (named for
    The American Scholar23 min read
    Thoreau's Pencils
    AUGUSTINE SEDGEWICK is the author of Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug, winner of the 2022 Cherasco Prize, and the forthcoming Fatherhood: A History of Love and Power. When Henry Thoreau was a boy, he asked his mot
    The American Scholar10 min read
    Others
    ARTHUR KRYSTAL is the author of five books of essays and Some Unfinished Chaos: The Lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Some 50 years ago, I came across a question that I have been mulling over ever since. It appears in Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influe
    The American Scholar4 min read
    Mortal Coils
    Tahlequah gave birth to a daughter in July 2018. The infant lived for only half an hour, but for 17 days, across more than 1,000 miles, Tahlequah would not let her baby go. The mother carried her infant's corpse halfway across an ocean, balancing it
    The American Scholar4 min readGender Studies
    For Want Of Touch
    “You're writing a history of sex? The whole of it?” Rebecca L. Davis, a professor of history at the University of Delaware, was asked several times in recent years. Her response is Fierce Desires, a chronicle of how cultural forces have shaped Americ
    The American Scholar8 min read
    Adventures With Jean
    I lived in New York City when it was more violent and dangerous than it is now. Needle Park was still a place where people were killed and women were raped, and the Lower East Side was a place where you wanted to be careful. Mobsters shot each other
    The American Scholar2 min read
    Happy Birthday, Mr. Ives
    Listen to just about anything Charles Ives wrote—his symphonies, his songs, his monumental Concord Piano Sonata—and you may experience a range of simultaneous emotions: awe, nostalgia, exhilaration, but also perhaps bewilderment. Ives remains, in his
    The American Scholar4 min read
    Imperiled Planet
    In this devastating and essential world history, Sunil Amrith sets out how we humans, during the past thousand years, have altered Earth and, often as not, ravaged it. “To have any hope of undoing the densely woven braid between inequality, violence,
    The American Scholar9 min read
    A Poet Of The Soil
    One St. Patrick's Day in the early 1980s, I met Seamus Heaney for lunch at the Faculty Club at Harvard, where we were both teaching. The Boston area is one of the most proudly Irish places in America, and everybody was wearing green for the day. Ever
    The American Scholar12 min read
    Reborn In The City Of Light
    ROSANNA WARREN's most recent books are So Forth and Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters. In 1935, Berenice Abbott was photographing scenes for her monumental collection Changing New York when a male bureaucrat at the Federal Art Project admonished h
    The American Scholar3 min read
    Feels Like Coming Home
    I am not the first person to consider a tree a friend. The Giving Tree, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and The Secret Life of Trees, just to name a few books, are testaments to the reciprocity between trees and humans. I recall a friend from Israel who wo
    The American Scholar15 min read
    Field Notes
    JEFFREY LENT is the author of six novels. So far. He fell off the cliff of a seven-inch zafu. He couldn't get up because of his surgery. He believes in the Resurrection mostly because he was never taught how not to. —“Where Is Jim Harrison?” Dead Man
    The American Scholar13 min read
    Moondance
    LEIGH ANN HENION is the author of Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, and other publications. This essay is adapted from her forthcoming
    The American Scholar4 min read
    Insisting On The Positive
    Intellectuals, like baseball players, don't handle every position well. The philosopher tries to write an Umberto Eco novel, but drops the ball. The psychologist decides she's also a poet, but strikes out. Add the historian who transitions into a phi
    The American Scholar19 min read
    Look Out!
    DEBRA SPARK is the author of five novels, including the recent Discipline, two collections of short stories, and two books of essays. She is the Zacamy Professor of English at Colby College and is working on a book of essays about coincidence stories
    The American Scholar5 min read
    Silent Partner
    Most fans of Robert Louis Stevenson associate him with childhood readings of Treasure Island or Kidnapped, but I first encountered his work as an adult. I was traveling in the Cévennes, a range of mountains in southern France, researching the efforts
    The American Scholar8 min read
    The Patron Subjects
    On a visit to Seattle early in 2001, I happened to see an exhibition of paintings by John Singer Sargent at the Seattle Art Museum. The artist had made brief appearances in two biographies I had written—one, of Alice James, the younger sister of Will
    The American Scholar4 min read
    Schmaltz Of Significance
    After crooning “Dirty Hands, Dirty Face,” Jack Robin (né Jakie Rabinowitz) turns to his audience in a scruffy cabaret called Coffee Dan's. “Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin’ yet,” he says. “Wait a minute, I tell ya. You ain't hear
    The American Scholar2 min read
    The Art of Falling
    In “Gravity Archives,” a new long poem, Andrew Motion sorts through his personal past while charting the ongoing present with its .fluctuating moods, obsessive memories, and .fleeting observations, almost in the manner of a diary. The poems here foll
    The American Scholar8 min read
    Free
    I first encountered Wallace Stevens's poem “Sunday Morning” as a young man in college. Its way of juxtaposing “morning” pleasures against “evening” concerns—the delights of the body silhouetted against the extinction awaiting us—arrested me. What cou
    The American Scholar1 min read
    The American Scholar
    SUDIP BOSE Editor BRUCE FALCONER Executive Editor STEPHANIE BASTEK Senior Editor JAYNE ROSS Associate Editor DAVID HERBICK Design Director SANDRA COSTICH Editor-at-Large LANGDON HAMMER Poetry Editor SALLY ATWATER Copy Editor GRACE HOGSTEN Editorial A
    The American Scholar4 min read
    Ground Truth
    Initially, some readers might be puzzled by the subtitle of Wright Thompson's new book—“The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi.” The torture and murder of Emmett Till on August 28, 1955, in a barn outside Drew, Mississippi, made headlines arou
    The American Scholar5 min read
    A Giant Of A Man
    The timing was uncanny, a bit charmed even, but then again—during a Hall of Fame career that spanned nearly a quarter of a century, and that led him from the Jim Crow South to New York to San Francisco and then back east—Willie Mays had nothing if no
    The American Scholar4 min read
    A Stranger In The Seven Hills
    André Aciman's introduction to Italy was a nightmare. His first memoir, Out of Egypt (1994), describes how a prosperous, sophisticated Turkish-Jewish family was forced out of Alexandria in the mid-20th century by President Gamal Abdel Nasser's campai
    The American Scholar4 min read
    Heart Of Semi-darkness
    Your meal at Hank's Oyster Bar, a small seafood chain in the Washington, D.C. area, always ends in something sweet, even if you don't order dessert: a petite glass bowl loaded with chunks of dark chocolate, a gift from the house. As with most gifts,
    The American Scholar15 min read
    Teach the Conflicts
    MARK EDMUNSON is a University Professor at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World. In 1992, Gerald Graff, a distinguished English professor at the
    The American Scholar12 min read
    Rage, Muse
    WENDY SMITH is a contributing editor of the Scholar and the author of Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931–1940. Greek myths were among my favorite stories when I was little, thanks to Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire’s charmingly illu
    The American Scholar6 min read
    Just When You Thought It Wasn't Safe …
    In 1921, at the newly opened swimming pool at Washington University, St. Louis, a crowd of 2,500 gathered across two nights to witness America’s first water pageant. A portly man dressed as Father Neptune, with a long gray beard and trident, emerged

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