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Charles Simic’s the choice at San Francisco’s Dog Eared Books!

Honor and Fair Play in Homer’s Iliad

Harvard Critic Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson

New England Poetry Club Prizewinner Richard Hoffman

Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David

Virgil’s Georgics

Harvard Book Store author talks: David Ferry

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    • Table of Contents

      • 20 Rescued Bear Cubs Nursed Back to Health
      • Online Education at Harvard – a new advance for democracy?
      • Islam and its Coat of Many Colors – with Ali Asani
      • Charles Simic’s the choice at San Francisco’s Dog Eared Books!
      • The history and future of the New England Forest
      • “Why Does the World Exist?” with Jim Holt
      • How to minimize disasters and manage crises – if possible!
      • Rediscovering James Joyce in Dublin with editor Maurice Earls
      • The Mau Mau rebellion — a revisionist history
      • Louis Menand, John Summers and Dan Aaron take on Dwight MacDonald
      • Tales from Donegal, told in Kenny’s Bookshop
      • Is WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a hero, or a villain?
      • Talks@Harvard Book Store: Sean Dorrance Kelly
      • Honor and Fair Play in Homer’s Iliad
      • Tom Perrotta on Flannery O’Connor — a literary affinity
      • The North Atlantic Right Whale: Our Urban Leviathan
      • James Carroll Takes On Jerusalem
      • Harvard Critic Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson
      • Faculty Insight: Islam in the West – a clash of civilizations?
      • Boston Book Festival – year two!
      • Faculty Insight: Nuclear strategy in the post-cold war world
      • An Afternoon at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic
      • Simon Johnson Takes on Banks Deemed “Too Big to Fail”
      • Coral reefs, hermit crabs and tube worms with Randi Rotjan
      • New England Poetry Club Prizewinner Richard Hoffman
      • Rebecca Goldstein: the atheist with a soul
      • A Conversation with Los Angeles Impresario Ernest Fleischmann
      • The “New Biology” with Steven Pinker, Noga Arikha & Melvin Konner
      • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau
      • Lydia Ratcliff: Vermont Farmer, Stubborn Survivor
      • Jonah Lehrer on Emotional Hijacking and “How We Decide”
      • The Promise of Open Media
      • The Dopamine Economy
      • Turbulent Times for Truth Tellers? Just ask the Nieman Foundation…
      • Has the Global Economic Crisis – or GEC – got us?
      • The Economic Pits with James Poterba
      • Samuel Huntington — on Immigration and the American Identity
      • The New York Review turns 45!
      • Getrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas & Janet Malcolm!
      • Reading List for Obama – your thoughts?
      • How Fiction Works — with James Wood
      • Public Radio goes Hollywood!
      • Our American “Empire” with Niall Ferguson
      • “The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It”!!!
      • Griefer, Google Cooking and other Neologisms
      • To friend or not to friend: Judith Donath on online social status
      • Ethan Zuckerman’s homage to homophily
      • More Neologisms with TPM’s Josh Marshall
      • Tim Wu’s neologism: Network neutrality!
      • Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia – the word!
      • In Search of Neologisms with Esther Dyson
      • Steve Reich Meets The Borromeo String Quartet!
      • The Origins of “Rock”
      • Zen and the Art of Writing – with Natalie Goldberg
      • The Future of Europe – with Alberto Alesina
      • Art & Science with Alan Lightman
      • Kwame Anthony Appiah: the Cosmopolitan Philosopher
      • The End of Our Universe among other timely topics…
      • Faith and Philosophy with Harvey Cox and Simon Blackburn
      • Public Media Maverick Jay Allison
      • Astrophysics in Cambridge — at the Planetarium!
      • Marc Hauser on “Moral Minds”
      • Doc Searls!
      • The BBC and CBC weigh in…
      • Doug Kaye at the IMA
      • WNYC’s Bill Swersey on “Open Source”
      • Two Questions: Redux
      • Two Questions
      • Integrated Media — are we there yet?
      • Economist Amartya Sen on “Identity and Violence”
      • The Future of Public Radio: Part 5
      • The Future of Public Radio: Part 4
      • The Future of Public Radio: Part 3
      • The Future of Public Radio: Part 2
      • The Future of Public Radio: Part 1
      • Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah
      • Beyond Broadcast: more state of mind…
      • Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind
      • Dan Gillmor on ThoughtCast
      • Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist
      • Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David
      • Harvard Book Store author talks: Alan Dershowitz
      • Harvard Book Store author talks: Kevin Smokler
      • The Peabody Sisters – with biographer Megan Marshall
      • The Web 2.0 and beyond — a conversation
      • Carol Bundy, Civil War biographer
      • Virgil’s Georgics
      • Harvard Book Store author talks: Carol Bundy
      • Ilan Stavans: chameleon, critic
      • Harvard Book Store author talks: David Ferry
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