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The American Scholar Magazine - Winter 2013

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In this issue

Susan Jacoby on Robert Ingersoll · Edward Hoagland on friendship · Owen Gingerich on climate change · Sierra Bellows on John Hanning Speke's ill-fated quest · Anne P. Beatty on the grim rituals of students in South Central LA · Wendy Smith on the Brothers Grimm · Bruce Falconer on gentrification in Berlin · Fiction by Edith Pearlman and David Huddle · Poetry by Robin Robertson

The American Scholar Magazine Description:

Publisher: The-Phi-Beta-Kappa-Society

Category: Education

Language: English

Frequency: Quarterly

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.