Essays

Days of Lies and Roses

Selling out Afghanistan
Sarah Chayes

The Geography of Poverty

Rethinking social policy
Dalton Conley

Knowing Right and Wrong

Is morality a natural phenomenon?
Alex Byrne

New Fiction Forum

Barbarian's Fantasies

Fiction
Peter Mountford

Homeland

On the new generation of Nigerian novelists
Andrée Green

Paradise Lost

The novels of Sarah Waters
Jan Clausen

On Film

Any Human Heart

Alejandro Gonzá Iñárritu' sBabel
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Into the Language Lab

Joan Retllack and Juliana Spahr's Poetry and Pedagogy
Barbara K. Fischer

Grand Failure

Heart Crane's poems and letters
Calvin Bedient

A Measure of Splendo

Taha Muhammad Ali's So What
Joyelle McSweeney

Microreviews

Poems

With Delicate Hand

Nick Twemlow

View of the City

Carrie Bennett

At the Curved Bridge

Carrie Bennett

A Long Romance

Allen Grossman

Plunder

Michael Robins

Guantanamo

Jorie Graham

The Lost Colony

Susan Stewart

Poem composed of statements made by George W. Bush in January 2003

H.L. Hix

The Nature of Encounters

Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Poet's Sampler: Michele Glazer

Introduced by Mark Doty