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The Sigma Tau Delta Review : Journal of Critical Writing - Vol 6 2009 - Magazine Back Issues
Only 1 left in stockJournal of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society Volume 6, 2009
Essays include:
- "Behind the Cotton Wool": The Social Unconscious in Mrs. Dalloway by Marion L. Quiriei
- Desire, Detour, and Disappointment in The Story of an African Farm by Dalglish Chew
- Writing Engagement: Textuality and Morality in The Quiet American by Dalglish Chew
- A Study in Success: Doyle's Depictions of Detectives and Mormons in A Study in Scarlet by Jamie Hauer
- The Captivity Narrative Monopoly: John Smith and Mary Rowlandson by Daniel Lifschitz
- "Leap From the Boat" : Moby Dick's Call for Rebellion by Jennifer Tota McGivney
- Narrative Contradictions in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace by Erica Rosenfeld
- Lillian Hellman and Marxism : A Historical and Philosophical Approach to The Little Foxes by Joel Slater
- The Elusive Mirror : The City, The Gaze, and the Self in Edgar Allen Poe's The Man of the Crowd by Jennifer L. Statton
- From Subject to Subjectivity : Reconciling Postmodernism and Autobiography in Lyn Hejinian's My Life and Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red Lindsey Warren
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Qua - The Literary Magazine of the University of Michigan-Flint Winter 2018 - Magazine Back Issues
Only 1 left in stockQua is the literary journal published by the University of Michigan-Flint. This is the Winter 2018 issue.
Contains photography, drawing, writing, and poems.
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Qua - The Literary Magazine of the University of Michigan-Flint Fall 2017 - Magazine Back Issues
Only 1 left in stockQua is the literary journal published by the University of Michigan-Flint. This is the Fall 2017 issue.
Contains photography, drawing, writing, and poems.
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Qua - The Literary Magazine of the University of Michigan-Flint Winter 2013 - Magazine Back Issues
Only 1 left in stockQua is the literary journal published by the University of Michigan-Flint. This is the Winter 2013 issue.
Contains photography, drawing, writing, and poems.
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Qua - The Literary Magazine of the University of Michigan-Flint Winter 2016 - Magazine Back Issues
Only 1 left in stockQua is the literary journal published by the University of Michigan-Flint. This is the Winter 2016 issue.
Contains photography, drawing, writing, and poems.
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Granta 83 The Magazine of New Writing - Magazine Back Issues
Only 1 left in stockGranta 83: This Overheating World
Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a wild-eyed prediction, a man on the street with a placard. Respectable science knows it and says it. Nine of the world's ten warmest years since records were kept have occurred in the past fourteen years. Every month, an English garden moves south, climatically, by a distance of one hundred yards. Who is responsible? We are our habits. Can we prevent it? Too late. Can we moderate it, slow it, reverse it? Yes- if we try. This issue of Granta contains reports from the frontiers of environment change. Contributors include: Marion Botsford-Fraser; James Hamilton-Paterson; Matthew Hart; Thomas Keneally; Philip Marsden; Bill McKibben; Wayne McLennan; Christopher de Bellaigue; James Meek; and Nuha al-Radi in Iraq. There is new fiction from Maarten 't Hart and Jon McGregor, and a picture essay by Edward Burtynsky on our industrial landscapes.
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Granta 83 The Magazine of New Writing - USED Magazine Back Issues
Only 1 left in stockGranta 83: This Overheating World
Not so much the state we're in as the mess we're getting into. The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a wild-eyed prediction, a man on the street with a placard. Respectable science knows it and says it. Nine of the world's ten warmest years since records were kept have occurred in the past fourteen years. Every month, an English garden moves south, climatically, by a distance of one hundred yards. Who is responsible? We are our habits. Can we prevent it? Too late. Can we moderate it, slow it, reverse it? Yes- if we try. This issue of Granta contains reports from the frontiers of environment change. Contributors include: Marion Botsford-Fraser; James Hamilton-Paterson; Matthew Hart; Thomas Keneally; Philip Marsden; Bill McKibben; Wayne McLennan; Christopher de Bellaigue; James Meek; and Nuha al-Radi in Iraq. There is new fiction from Maarten 't Hart and Jon McGregor, and a picture essay by Edward Burtynsky on our industrial landscapes.
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Granta 81 The Magazine of New Writing - Magazine Back Issues
Only 1 left in stockAs with the first two Best of Young British Novelists issues, Granta's 2003 list was compelling and prescient. The issue introduced readers to fiction by Zadie Smith, David Mitchell, and Monica Ali. From Ben Rice's story of marital crises among Koi fanciers to Hari Kunzru's account of the development of a Bollywood-inspired computer virus, this issue showcases the panorama and vibrancy of contemporary British literature.
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Granta 97 The Magazine of New Writing - USED Magazine Back Issues
Only 1 left in stockGranta 97 : Best of Young American Novelists 2
In 1996, Granta's first Best of Young American Novelists issue included Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen and Lorrie Moore. Who will match them in the new generation? This special issue features original work by the twenty-one writers under thirty-five who Granta’s judges (including novelists Edmund White and A.M. Holmes) have selected as the most interesting new young voices in American fiction.
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"Sets the literary agenda for a generation."
"They say the purpose of the list is to get people talking. It's certainly done that."
"Call it 'Twenty of the Best' and get on with it. Blare the trumpets and wake the readers."
"Best of Young American Novelists is full of good writing: personable, witty, sensitive, ironic."
"Granta's hit parade is refreshing and eclectic, chock-full of strong, immensely talented young writers."
"Granta's once-a-decade literary beauty contest has already raised some hackles, and not just among those who didn't make the cut."
"Will people be reading the magazine for the content or the controversy? Who knows? In any case, Granta deserves some kind of prize."
"Ranking writers like this is pointless; it looks like a publicity stunt. But read 'em and reap: Granta has produced a handy guide to some of the best current American Fiction." -
Granta 93 The Magazine of New Writing - Magazine Back Issues
Only 1 left in stockGranta Volume 93: God's Own Countries
The politics of religion around the world, featuring John McGahern, A. L. Kennedy, Richard Mabey, Simon Gray, Geoff Dyer, Jackie Kay, Pankaj Mishra, Nell Freudenberger, and more on their personal experiences—close, baffling, acrimonious, or nonexistent— of the divine.
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Granta 85 The Magazine of New Writing - Magazine Back Issues
Only 1 left in stockGRANTA 85: HIDDEN HISTORIES
Repressed personal experiences, neglected battles, forgotten civilizations: an issue of Granta that excavates the unfairly buried event, the secret life, the overlooked war. With: Diana Athill on her lost baby, Giles Foden on Africa's naval war, Jennie Erdal on her career as a ghost, Brian Cathcart on the very different life of another Brian Cathcart, Donovan Wylie's photographs of a northern Irish past, Geoffrey Beattie on his Protestant childhood, Jackie Kay on finding her father, plus new fiction by Anne Enright.
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Readers Digest October 2011 Increase Your Funny Power Humor Special - Magazine Back Issue
Only 1 left in stockReader's Digest single copy back issue :
October 2011 Special Humor Edition
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004 - Paperback
Only 1 left in stockSince its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004, edited by Steven Pinker, is another "provocative and thoroughly enjoyable [collection] from start to finish" (Publishers Weekly). Here is the best and newest on science and nature: the psychology of suicide terrorism, desperate measures in surgery, the weird world of octopuses, Sex Week at Yale, the linguistics of click languages, the worst news about cloning, and much more.
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The Best American Non Required Reading 2006 - Paperback
Only 1 left in stockSince its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by an editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field, making the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
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Best New American Voices 2007 edited by Sue Miller - Paperback
Only 1 left in stockBestselling novelist and acclaimed teacher Sue Miller continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers in this year’s volume of Best New American Voices. Here are stories culled from hundreds of writing programs like the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Johns Hopkins and from summer conferences like Sewanee and Bread Loaf—as well as a complete list of contact information for these programs.
This collection showcases tomorrow’s literary stars: Julie Orringer, Adam Johnson, William Gay, David Benioff, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Maile Meloy, Amanda Davis, Jennifer Vanderbes, and John Murray are just some of the acclaimed authors whose early work has appeared in this series since its launch in 2000. The best new American voices are heard here first.
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n+1 n plus one - Issue 3, Fall 2005 - Back Issue Periodical
Only 1 left in stock- The Intellectual Scene
- A Violent Season
- Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop
- Two Fairy Tales
- James Wood : A Reply to the Editors
- plus, Politics and Reviews
Published August 2005.
179 pages.
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The Best American Non Required Reading 2016 - Paperback
Only 1 left in stockIn a small but comfortable conference room, in a publishing house in San Francisco, a group of high school students met weekly over the past year to read literary magazines, chapbooks, graphic novels, and countless articles. They had some good times. There was a whiteboard in the conference room, and often cartoons were drawn on this whiteboard. The cartoons were of varying quality. By the end of the year, with the help of a similar committee of high school students in Ann Arbor, and their guest editor, Rachel Kushner, they selected the contents of this anthology. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 features stories about Bulgarian spaceships, psychedelic mushroom therapy, and a cyclorama in Iowa. If you don’t know what a cyclorama is, you aren’t alone. Read on to find out.
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 includes N. R. KLEINFIELD, ANNA KOVATCHEVA, DAN HOY, ANTHONY MARRA, MICHAEL POLLAN, MARILYNNE ROBINSON, DANA SPIOTTA, ADRIAN TOMINE, INARA VERZEMNIEKS and others
Rachel Kushner, guest editor, is the author of The Flamethrowers, which was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and one of the New York Times’s top five novels of 2013. Kushner’s debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, a winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book.
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The Best American Non Required Reading 2009 - Dave Eggers, editor - Paperback
Only 1 left in stockThis "great volume" highlights the "very best of this year's fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplys, blogs and more" (OK!). Compiled by Dave Eggers and students from his San Francisco writing center, it is "both uproarious and illuminating" (Publishers Weekly).
Includes work by Philip Connors, Nathan Englander, Jonathan Franzen, Rivka Galchen, J. Malcolm Garcia, David Grann, Denis Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, Matthew Power, and others.
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Ploughshares Winter 198 Volume 14 Number 1 Poetry and Fiction
Only 1 left in stockMaxine Kumin edited this journal containing stories and poems by John Balaban, Robin Becker, Philip Booth, Marilyn Chin, Stephen Corey, Starkey Flythe Jr., Erica Funkhouser, Celia Gilbert, Marilyn Hacker, Donald Hall, Charles O. Hartman, Mary Hedin, Tony Hoagland, Annette Williams Jaffee, Susanna Kaysen, Jane Kenyon, Caroline Knox, Margo Lockwood, Gail Mazur, Howard Nemerov, Joyce Carol Oates, Carole Oles, Alicia Ostriker, Joyce Peseroff, David Ray, George Starbuck, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Ruth Whitman, and more. The cover painting is "Aspen Leaves and Pine Branch After Rain" (detail) by David M. Carroll.
Joyce Carol Oates contributed a short story entitled, "Geese."
ISSN 0048-4474
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The Best American Non Required Reading 2010 - Dave Eggers, editor - Paperback
Only 1 left in stockAn eclectic volume introduced by David Sedaris and compiled by Dave Eggers and students of his San Francisco writing center, who don’t leave a stone unturned in their search for nonrequired gems.
Includes entries by Sherman Alexie, Lilli Carre, Stephen Colbert, Rana Dasgupta, Andrew Sean Greer, Barry Lopez, Tea Obreht, David Rohde, George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, and others.
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The Best American Non Required Reading 2003 - Dave Eggers, editor - Softcover
Only 1 left in stockSince its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by an editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field, making the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
Dave Eggers, who will be editing The Best American Nonrequired Reading annually, has once again chosen the best and least-expected fiction, nonfiction, satire, investigative reporting, alternative comics, and more from publications large, small, and on-line -- The Onion, The New Yorker, Shout, Time, Zoetrope, Tin House, Nerve.com, and McSweeney's, to name just a few. Read on for "Some of the best literature you haven't been reading . . . And it's fantastic. All of it." (St. Petersburg Times).
Represented here are: Sherman Alexie, Lynda Barry, Ryan Boudinot, Mark Bowden, Michael Buckley, Judy Budnitz, David Drury, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lisa Gabriele, Amanda Holzer, Chuck Klosterman, K. Kvashay-Boyle, Dylan Landis, Andrea Lee, J.T. Leroy, Douglas Light, Nasdijj, The Onion, George Packer, ZZ Packer, James Pinkerton, David Sedaris, Jason Stella, John Verbos, Daniel Voll, and if we left anyone out, we apologize.
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The Best American Non Required Reading 2004 - Dave Eggers, editor - Paperback
Only 2 left in stockSince its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
Dave Eggers, who edits The Best American Nonrequired Reading annually, has once again chosen the best and least-expected contemporary fiction, nonfiction, satire, investigative reporting, alternative comics, and more from publications large, small, and on-line -- Zoetrope, Tin House, the Atlantic Monthly, Bomb, SPX, the New York Times, Texas Monthly, GQ, Iowa Review, Esquire, and others. Read on for "some of the best literature you haven't been reading . . . and it's fantastic. All of it" (St. Petersburg Times).
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The Best American Non Required Reading 2002 Dave Eggers, editor - Softcover
Only 1 left in stockSince its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to the twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind.
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 is a selection for young people of the best literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals: from the New Yorker, Jane, Rolling Stone, Zyzzyva, Vibe, The Onion, Spin, Epoch, Time, Little Engines, Modern Humorist, Esquire, and more. Dave Eggers has chosen the highlights of 2001 for this genre-busting collection that includes new fiction, essays, satire, journalism -- and much more. From Eric Schlosser on french fries to Elizabeth McKenzie on awful family to Seaton Smith on how to "jive" with your teen, The Best American Nonrequried Reading 2002 is the first and the best.
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The Best American Non Required Reading 2005 - Dave Eggers, editor - Paperback
Only 1 left in stockThe Best American Series First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. For each volume, the very best pieces are selected by a leading writer in the field, making the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind.
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 includes
Daniel Alarcón • Aimee Bender • Dan Chaon • Daniel Clowes • Tish Durkin • Stephen Elliott • Al Franken • Jhumpa Lahiri • Rattawut Lapcharoensap • Anders Nilsen • Georges Saunders • William T. Vollmann • and others
Dave Eggers, editor, is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, and How We Are Hungry, and the editor of McSweeney's. He is the founder of 826 Valencia, a San Francisco writing lab for young people.
Beck, guest introducer, whose single "Loser" was instantly labeled an anthem for the slacker generation, is also known for his Grammy Award-winning albums Odelay and Mutations.
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n+1 n plus one - Issue 20, Fall 2014 - Back Issue Periodical
Only 1 left in stockNo care for the caregivers, no luck for the narcos. Should artists get paid? Check your privilege! David Samuels goes to the Grammys. Frank Guan reviews Tao Lin. New fiction from Akhtiorskaya and Zink.
Published August 2014.
179 pages.
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American Scholar Volume 75 Issue 4 Autumn 2006
A single issue, back copy, of American Scholar.
The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry's highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.
In 2006, The American Scholar began to publish fiction by such writers as Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Steven Millhauser, Dennis McFarland, Louis Begley, and David Leavitt. Essays, articles, criticism, and poetry have been mainstays of the magazine for 75 years.
Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous speech, The American Scholar, delivered to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College in 1837, the magazine aspires to Emerson's ideals of independent thinking, self-knowledge, and a commitment to the affairs of the world as well as to books, history, and science.
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American Scholar Volume 75 Issue 3 Summer 2006
A single issue, back copy, of American Scholar.
The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry's highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.
In 2006, The American Scholar began to publish fiction by such writers as Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Steven Millhauser, Dennis McFarland, Louis Begley, and David Leavitt. Essays, articles, criticism, and poetry have been mainstays of the magazine for 75 years.
Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous speech, The American Scholar, delivered to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College in 1837, the magazine aspires to Emerson's ideals of independent thinking, self-knowledge, and a commitment to the affairs of the world as well as to books, history, and science.
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American Scholar Volume 75 Issue 2 Spring 2006
A single issue, back copy, of American Scholar.
The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry's highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.
In 2006, The American Scholar began to publish fiction by such writers as Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Steven Millhauser, Dennis McFarland, Louis Begley, and David Leavitt. Essays, articles, criticism, and poetry have been mainstays of the magazine for 75 years.
Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous speech, The American Scholar, delivered to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College in 1837, the magazine aspires to Emerson's ideals of independent thinking, self-knowledge, and a commitment to the affairs of the world as well as to books, history, and science.
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American Scholar Volume 75 Issue 1 Winter 2006
A single issue, back copy, of American Scholar.
The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry's highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.
In 2006, The American Scholar began to publish fiction by such writers as Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Steven Millhauser, Dennis McFarland, Louis Begley, and David Leavitt. Essays, articles, criticism, and poetry have been mainstays of the magazine for 75 years.
Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous speech, The American Scholar, delivered to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College in 1837, the magazine aspires to Emerson's ideals of independent thinking, self-knowledge, and a commitment to the affairs of the world as well as to books, history, and science.
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American Scholar Volume 74 Issue 4 Autumn 2005
A single issue, back copy, of American Scholar.
The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry's highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.
In 2006, The American Scholar began to publish fiction by such writers as Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Steven Millhauser, Dennis McFarland, Louis Begley, and David Leavitt. Essays, articles, criticism, and poetry have been mainstays of the magazine for 75 years.
Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous speech, The American Scholar, delivered to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College in 1837, the magazine aspires to Emerson's ideals of independent thinking, self-knowledge, and a commitment to the affairs of the world as well as to books, history, and science.
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American Scholar Volume 78 Issue 4 Autumn 2009
A single issue, back copy, of American Scholar.
The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry's highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.
In 2006, The American Scholar began to publish fiction by such writers as Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Steven Millhauser, Dennis McFarland, Louis Begley, and David Leavitt. Essays, articles, criticism, and poetry have been mainstays of the magazine for 75 years.
Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous speech, The American Scholar, delivered to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College in 1837, the magazine aspires to Emerson's ideals of independent thinking, self-knowledge, and a commitment to the affairs of the world as well as to books, history, and science.
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American Scholar Volume 79 Issue 3 Summer 2010
A single issue, back copy, of American Scholar.
The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won four National Magazine Awards, the industry's highest honor, and many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American anthologies.
In 2006, The American Scholar began to publish fiction by such writers as Alice Munro, Ann Beattie, Steven Millhauser, Dennis McFarland, Louis Begley, and David Leavitt. Essays, articles, criticism, and poetry have been mainstays of the magazine for 75 years.
Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous speech, The American Scholar, delivered to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College in 1837, the magazine aspires to Emerson's ideals of independent thinking, self-knowledge, and a commitment to the affairs of the world as well as to books, history, and science.