Distinguished for his poetry and fiction, ROBERT GRAVES is equally at home in the field of classical antiquity. The blending of the novelist’s art with the scholar’s fidelity is no better achieved than in I, Claudius, a remarkable reconstruction of Roman life, and his best-known work. Recently his attention has turned to early Greek myths, and his interpretations have cast fresh light on accepted belief. Here he discusses the lost continent of Atlantis.

The Atlantic recently asked a group of foreign-policy authorities about the conflict in Iraq

Few Americans, this cliche-upending book shows, owned guns before the Civil War. What happened?

MICHAEL LINDSAY is an Australian who lived in China for many years. During part of World War II he was with the Communist guerrillas and came to know Mao Tse-tung personally. Since 1951, Mr. Lindsay has been Senior Fellow of the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University of Canberra.