CURRENT ISSUE

September 2006

Features

Sleeping with Cannibals

Our intrepid reporter gets up close and personal with New Guinea natives who say they still eat their fellow tribesmen

Paul Raffaele

To Be or Not to Be Shakespeare

While skeptics continue to question the authorship of his plays, a new exhibition raises doubts about the authenticity of his portraits

Doug Stewart

Folio, Where Art Thou?

One man's quest to track down every copy on the planet

Paul Collins

Mountain lion climbing down rock, Yellowstone National Park

Cougars on the Move

Mountain lions are thought to be multiplying in the West and heading east. Can we learn to live with these beautiful, elusive creatures?

Steve Kemper

The Queen Who Would Be King

Mummy dearest? Recent scholarship is changing thinking about female pharaoh Hatshepsut, whom Egyptologists once called "the vilest type of usurper."

Elizabeth B. Wilson

Storm Warnings

Is global warming to blame for the intensity of recent Atlantic hurricanes? While experts debate that question, they agree that tempests are headed our way

J. Madeleine Nash

Steeped in History

New York's breathtaking Finger Lakes district has influenced historical figures from Mark Twain to Harriet Tubman

Jonathan Kandell

Author Pete Hamill

Pete Hamill, author of "Downtown: My Manhattan," discusses what makes New York home

Courtney Jordan

Encore! Encore!

Lorenzo Da Ponte was a hit in Europe: a courtier, a cad, the librettist for Mozart's finest operas. But the New World truly tested his creative powers

Christopher Porterfield

Departments

Indelible Images

Through the Mill

Because of a Lewis Hine photograph, Addie Card became the poster child of child labor. But what became of Addie Card?

Elizabeth Winthrop

My Kind of Town

Five Years Later

Tourists flock to the World Trade Center site, but for New Yorkers, 9/11 is history

Pete Hamill

From the Secretary

Trailblazers

This month, pandas and other exotic creatures go on view at the National Zoo's new Asia Trail

Q&A

Steve Fossett

On March 3, 2005, after 67 hours aboard his Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, he became the first person to fly alone around the world nonstop

Katy June-Friesen

What's Up

The Tao of Tea, Beyond Pottery and Something in the Air

Smithsonian magazine

From the Editor

This Month in History

September Anniversaries

Momentous or merely memorable

The Last Page

Last Page: The Wrath of Khan

Even IRS auditors will tremble in my presence

Bruce McCall