September/October 2008
In This Issue September/October 2008
Volume 29, Issue 5
Wooden fishing lures from the Shelburne's folk art collection
Photo courtesy Shelburne Museum
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Features
From the Horse's Mouth
Pinpointing a home of the first Indo-European speakers is a charged task that David Anthony takes seriously.
By Andrew LawlerOne Master, Many Cervantes
Numerous translations of Don Quixote, some made without knowledge of Spanish, attest to the novel’s long reach.
By Ilan StavansVodka in South Bend
Russian music and mentoring create an unlikely colony of artists.
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Departments
Curio
Road to the White House, 1908 Edition
From New-York Daily Tribune, Wednesday, November 4, 1908
FOUR SHERMANS VOTE.
Vice-Presidential Candidate and Sons Go to Booth Together.Golem Revival
The most vivid, pervasive and influential version of the golem legend emerges from sixteenth-century Prague and is indelibly linked with Rabbi Loew (1525–1609), the famous spiritual leader of
Conversation
The Revisionist
Writer Amity Shlaes talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about her take on the Great Depression.
Impertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Kristine Harper
As a meteorologist for the United States Navy for more than twenty years, Kristine Harper is distinctly qualified to talk about the weather.
In Focus
Connecticut’s Bruce Fraser
Connecticut’s Bruce Fraser stands up for the quieter, shy sister of the arts.
By Cathy Shufro
