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The American Scholar

Winter 2020
Magazine

Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous speech, The American Scholar is the quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932.

A Capital Crime

The American Scholar

LETTERS

New Leader, Old Troubles

Desert Time

Gaining Immunity

POETRY EXCERPT

PROGRESS REPORT

Joyas Voladoras • Revisiting an ode to the heart by one of our best-loved writers

This Man Should Not Be Executed • BILLY JOE WARDLOW MURDERED A MAN, BUT MITIGATING FACTS SAY HE SHOULD NOT PAY FOR THAT CRIME WITH HIS LIFE

The Greatest Sexual Revolution • HOW WORLD WAR II PREFIGURED THE ’60S

Changing Trains • IN STUTTGART, IN 1943, MY MOTHER ESCAPED BOMBS FALLING ON THE STATION. HAS HER TERROR EXPRESSED ITSELF IN ME?

The Fantastical Real

Winter Recipes from the Collective

Channeling Emerson • AT WORK IN HIS TIMELESS, SMOKE-SCENTED, GHOST-CRAMMED STUDY AT THE OLD MANSE

A Transcendentalist at Work • THOREAU SPENT HIS LAST DOZEN YEARS IN THIS GARRET, MAKING SENSE OF WHAT HE COULD SEE FROM HIS WINDOWS

Encounters Off the Page • AFTER CONDUCTING 250 AUTHOR INTERVIEWS OVER FOUR DECADES, I’M STILL ENGAGED BUT A LOT LESS AWESTRUCK

A Diviner’s Abecedarian

Bronzes for the Ages • The little-known genius of Bertoldo di Giovanni

Alternate Universes • Quentin Tarantino has, over the course of his career, reimagined the art of filmmaking

Norman Maclean and Me • Advice for living and drinking from the author of A River Runs Through It

Visible Man • An intimate view of a great American writer

History, Alive and Well • A writer’s tour of the Soviet world, 30 years after its collapse

A Biographer Looks Back • A noted practitioner reveals her tricks of the trade

A Founding Class • Two new studies of the man from Monticello

Questions of Inspiration • Should we try to see the poet in her poetry?

The Barber of Language • A new collection from a celebrated prose stylist

Nationalist Anthems • Remembering a time when composers mattered more

Pursuing the White Whale • A briny exploration of Melville’s greatest work

Commonplace Book

AMERICAN PLACES


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Frequency: Quarterly Pages: 132 Publisher: Phi Beta Kappa Society Edition: Winter 2020

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Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous speech, The American Scholar is the quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932.

A Capital Crime

The American Scholar

LETTERS

New Leader, Old Troubles

Desert Time

Gaining Immunity

POETRY EXCERPT

PROGRESS REPORT

Joyas Voladoras • Revisiting an ode to the heart by one of our best-loved writers

This Man Should Not Be Executed • BILLY JOE WARDLOW MURDERED A MAN, BUT MITIGATING FACTS SAY HE SHOULD NOT PAY FOR THAT CRIME WITH HIS LIFE

The Greatest Sexual Revolution • HOW WORLD WAR II PREFIGURED THE ’60S

Changing Trains • IN STUTTGART, IN 1943, MY MOTHER ESCAPED BOMBS FALLING ON THE STATION. HAS HER TERROR EXPRESSED ITSELF IN ME?

The Fantastical Real

Winter Recipes from the Collective

Channeling Emerson • AT WORK IN HIS TIMELESS, SMOKE-SCENTED, GHOST-CRAMMED STUDY AT THE OLD MANSE

A Transcendentalist at Work • THOREAU SPENT HIS LAST DOZEN YEARS IN THIS GARRET, MAKING SENSE OF WHAT HE COULD SEE FROM HIS WINDOWS

Encounters Off the Page • AFTER CONDUCTING 250 AUTHOR INTERVIEWS OVER FOUR DECADES, I’M STILL ENGAGED BUT A LOT LESS AWESTRUCK

A Diviner’s Abecedarian

Bronzes for the Ages • The little-known genius of Bertoldo di Giovanni

Alternate Universes • Quentin Tarantino has, over the course of his career, reimagined the art of filmmaking

Norman Maclean and Me • Advice for living and drinking from the author of A River Runs Through It

Visible Man • An intimate view of a great American writer

History, Alive and Well • A writer’s tour of the Soviet world, 30 years after its collapse

A Biographer Looks Back • A noted practitioner reveals her tricks of the trade

A Founding Class • Two new studies of the man from Monticello

Questions of Inspiration • Should we try to see the poet in her poetry?

The Barber of Language • A new collection from a celebrated prose stylist

Nationalist Anthems • Remembering a time when composers mattered more

Pursuing the White Whale • A briny exploration of Melville’s greatest work

Commonplace Book

AMERICAN PLACES


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