Essays

Who Owns Bruno Schulz?

Poland stumbles over its Jewish past
Benjamin Paloff

Freedom Railway

The unexpected success of a Cold War development project
Jamie Monson

Best Intentions

The story of Tanzania's people's park
Christine J. Walley

What Went Wrong

Anonymous's Imperial Hubris and The 9/11 Commission Report
Rajan Menon

Rich World, Poor World

Francis Fukuyama's State-Building
Mick Moore

Lost Opportunities

Dennis Ross's The Missing Peace
Jeremy Pressman

New Fiction Forum

Expecting

Emily Fridlund

The Uses of Fantasy

Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Jennifer Howard

American Fighter

On writing The Fearless Man
Donald Pfarrer

On Film

See No Evil

Zhang Yimou’s Hero
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Master of the Same New Things

Richard Howard’s Inner Voices and Paper Trail
James Longenbach

The Politics of Reading

Marjorie Welish’s Word Group
Zack Finch

Poems

Facilitas

Garth Greenwell

Nativity

L.S. Klatt

The God that Took the Place of Pleasure

Judith Hall

Pilgrim Sonnet

Andrew Grace

Pilgrim Sonnet Redux

Andrew Grace

Song Disowned

Bruce Smith

Union Square

Lori Shine

Poet's Sampler: Jibade-Khalil Huffman

Introduced by Caroline Knox

Microreviews