The world is in tumult, but in the heart of Empire, the level of creative political energy runs flat along the bottom of the graph.
Our cat, who's over nineteen, likes to sleep
on the massed softness of a pile of shirts,
two, three, four, flung on the floor
but soon to be gathered up
Jonathan Schell's "Too Late for Empire" drew much praise from readers
[Aug. 14/21].Our Readers