Toby Lester

A journey through Alsace-Lorraine to the town that gave America its name

• Toby Lester
• January/February 2007 Issue

• Toby Lester
• January/February 2007 Issue

Watching a play by Euripides or reading poetry by Sappho is perhaps as incomplete an experience today as watching a "play" by Wagner or reading "poetry" by Stephen Sondheim would be

• Toby Lester
• November 2002 Issue

Religion didn't begin to wither away during the twentieth century, as some academic experts had prophesied. Far from it. And the new century will probably see religion explode—in both intensity and variety. New religions are springing up everywhere. Old ones are mutating with Darwinian restlessness. And the big "problem religion" of the twenty-first century may not be the one you think

• Toby Lester
• February 2002 Issue

It used to be that business and technology were considered the enemies of privacy. Not anymore

• Toby Lester
• March 2001 Issue

An e-mail interview with Steven Levy, the author of Crypto: When the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age  

• Toby Lester
• March 2001 Issue

Are the works of artist J.S.G. Boggs just defaced dollar bills? Or works of art worth $420,000? A look at an artist whose work has been raising some disconcerting questions about money and worth

• Toby Lester
• July 1999 Issue

Researchers with a variety of academic and theological interests are proposing controversial theories about the Koran and Islamic history, and are striving to reinterpret Islam for the modern world. This is, as one scholar puts it, a "sensitive business"

• Toby Lester
• January 1999 Issue

The chance harmonies of everyday sounds may mean more than we think.

• Toby Lester
• April 1997 Issue

Early in its existence The Atlantic failed to recognize the potential of one of the most formidable American poets of the nineteenth century.

• Toby Lester
• November 1996 Issue

A conversation with Mary Anne Weaver

• Toby Lester
• November 1996 Issue