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Stories and Stats

The truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers

Andrew Gelman and John Sides

With responses from Rick Perlstein, Richard Johnston and Emily Thorson, Mark Schmitt, and Michael C. Dawson.
Gelman and Sides respond.


State of the Nation

Getting Warmer

Jon Krosnick, Ariel Malka, and David Scott Yeager

Essays

Living With Coal

Climate policy’s most inconvenient truth
David Victor and Richard K. Morse
with a response from Richard Heinberg

Crisis and Hope

Theirs and ours
Noam Chomsky

Do the Right Thing

A genocide policy that works
Sarah Sewall

The Trial of Ezra Nawi

A peace activist faces judgement in Israel.—web only
David Shulman

New Fiction Forum

The Buddhist

Dorthe Nors, translated by Martin Aitken

Wonder Land

J. Robert Lennon’s Castle and Pieces for the Left Hand
G.C. Waldrep

On Film

Fool’s Gold

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Brüno
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Exchange Rate

Poetry in translation takes off
Jordan Davis

Leap Into Light

Calvin Bedient’s The Yeats Brothers and Modernism’s Love of Motion and Helen Vendler’s Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form
Robert Huddleston

Microreviews

Emily Wilson
Eleni Sikelianos
Ben Doller
Marjorie Welish

Poems

Ever was

Tom Thompson

Women’s Bathroom, College of Arts

Jane Zwart

Poem Beginning to End

Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Grief Abstracts

Julie Carr

Dear Modifications

Trey Sager

A Food We Once Ate Is Mentioned by Name

Catie Rosemurgy

Chrysalis

Izabela Filipiak, translated from the Polish by Karen Kovacik

Tattoo

Joseph Fasano

Father Benides

Adam Day

Poet's sampler: Broc Rossell

Introduced by Dan Beachy-Quick



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