Essays

On the Ground in Iraq

The roots of sectarian violence
Nir Rosen

The Crusader

Why we must take Osama bin Laden's writings seriously
Khaled Abou El Fadl

Freedom Reigns

But it isn't enough
Nick Bromell

New Fiction Forum

Things That Went Wrong Thus Far

Fiction
Deb Olin Unferth

The Dreamlife of Rupert Thompson

Novels at the intersection of gothic and noir
James Hynes

On Film

Happy Endings

Joe Wright's Pride and Prejudice
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Neglected

Samuel Menashe rediscovered
Kurt Brown

A Broken Place

Brenda Hillman's Pieces of Air in the Epic
Amy Newlove Schroeder

The Light in the Heart

Anne Carson's Decreation
Joyelle McSweeney

The Speaking Ear

Ronald Johnson's Radi Os
Dan Beachy-Quick

Microreviews

Poems

Lost

Michelle Noteboom

Sonnet

Sarah Rosenthal

A Small Anatomy of Feeling

Anna Rabinowitz

On the Phantom Estate

Geoffrey G. O'Brien

To Classes

Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Dream Job

Matthew Zapruder

Early

Mark Levine

Tu Fu Watches the Spring Festival Across Serpentine Lake

Frank Bidart

A laborious wakefulness or was it a most unapologetic whistling in the ear

Shane Book

Fifteen Minutes

Ben Doyle

Poets Sampler: F. Daniel Rzicnek

Introduced by Larissa Szporluk