Volume 61, Number 1 (2014-01-09)

by Samuel Scheffler, edited and with an introduction by Niko Kolodny, and with commentaries by Susan Wolf, Harry G. Frankfurt, Seana Valentine Shiffrin, and Niko Kolodny

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The Charms of Rex Whistler

In Search of Rex Whistler: His Life and His Work

by Hugh and Mirabel Cecil

Rex Whistler: A Talent Cut Short

an exhibition at the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Salisbury, England, May 24–September 29, 2013

Andrew Hacker

2014: Another Democratic Debacle?

Double Down: Game Change 2012

by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann

The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election

by John Sides and Lynn Vavreck

The Polarized Public? Why American Government Is So Dysfunctional

by Alan I. Abramowitz

The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite

by Mark S. Mizruchi

The Almanac of American Politics 2014

by Michael Barone, Chuck McCutcheon, and others

Elizabeth Kolbert

They Covered the Sky, and Then…

Perhaps, in ethical terms, it doesn’t much matter whether overhunting was or was not the sole cause of the passenger pigeon’s extinction. Practically speaking, though, it matters a good deal.

A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction

by Joel Greenberg

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record

by Errol Fuller

Martin Filler

No Harm to the Kimbell

Wisława Szymborska,
Clare Cavanagh

Dream

a poem

Ian Buruma

China: Reeducation Through Horror

The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution, 1945–1957

by Frank Dikötter

Michael Greenberg

The Daggers of Jorge Luis Borges

The writer’s lifelong dialogue with violence

Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

by Jorge Luis Borges, edited by Martín Arias and Martín Hadis, and translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver

Alan Ryan

A Big British Moment

Perilous Question: Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832

by Antonia Fraser

Adam Shatz

The Beautiful Sounds of Jimi Hendrix

“Hendrix used a range of technological innovations (feedback, sustain, effects pedals) to expand the sound of the guitar, to make it ‘talk’ in ways that it never had.”

Jimi Hendrix: I Hear My Train A Comin’

a film directed by Bob Smeaton

Starting at Zero: His Own Story

by Jimi Hendrix

Robert Darnton