July/August 2011
In This Issue July/August 2011
Everything Is Divine in Bali
A new exhibit of art, ritual, and performance from a tropical paradise.
By Steven Winn
Volume 32, Issue 4
Balinese bird mask, circa 1900-1940.Photo by Ben Grishaaver, collection of W. E. Bouwman
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Features
Henry James and the American Idea
The Atlantic Monthly helped establish the expatriate author as a literary great.
By Susan Goodman
The Well-Wrought Textbook
The making of the midcentury English department classic, Understanding Poetry.
By Garrick Davis
How Did Robert E. Lee Become an American Icon?
The man was remembered, but not his cause.
By James C. Cobb
Sultans of Swag
A look at "Gifts of the Sultan" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
By Doug Harvey
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Departments
Statements
Badger Boys in Blue
Wisconsin remembers its Badger Boys who fought for the Union.
By Laura Wolff ScanlanFire on the Walls
Texas looks at the land through the eyes of artist Alexandre Hogue.
By Patricia MoraA Prison Debate
Massachusetts compiles the history of the Norfolk Prison Debate Team, which even beat the likes of Oxford's best.
By Beth SchwartzapfelCurio
Capital Gains
Adolf Cluss lived through revolutionary times, first in his native Heilbronn in southwest Germany, where as a young man he got swept up in the popular uprisings of 1848, and then in Washington, D.C.,
By Steve MoyerOf Circles, Terraces, and Spheres
A little rusty on the Dante you read as an undergraduate? Like to brush up a bit on some points in the Inferno, like that “mal” something?
By Steve MoyerImpertinent Questions
Impertinent Questions with Deborah Harkness
On animated pies and other curiosities of sixteenth-century life.
By Meredith HindleyIn Focus
EdNote
Editor's Note, July/August 2011
In this issue we take in the legacies of two celebrated Americans, whose love of country was profoundly qualified. Robert E.
By David Skinner
