Editor’s Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

A Divisive Agenda

Stephen Ansolabehere

Essays

A New Start

Prospects for Obama’s “global zero”
Tara McKelvey

Speak, Memory

Can digital storage remember for you?
Evgeny Morozov

Ending the Endless War

Will Colombia’s democracy survive
the violence?
Luis Fernando Medina

Keynes, Recovered

Separating Keynes from the Keynesians
Jonathan Kirshner

Dreaming of a Free Iran

Akbar Ganji accepts the Friedman Prize
Akbar Ganji, translated by
Hamid Dabashi—Web only

New Fiction Forum

Take the Child

Jess Row

Man of Principle

The passions of Arthur Koestler
Roger Boylan

On Film

Kingpin

Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Called Into Being

Charles Bernstein’s All the Whiskey
in Heaven
Richard Deming

Slumming

Daniel Tiffany’s Infidel Poetics
Joyelle McSweeney

The Other Mother Tongue

Jeet Thayil’s The Bloodaxe Book of Indian Poets
Michael Scharf

“Discovery” Poetry Contest

Chelsea Jennings, Brandon Kreitler, Tanya Olson, and Camille Rankine

Microreviews

Daniel Simko
Brenda Hillman
Christina Pugh
Robert Henryson / Seamus Heaney
Stephen Burt

Poems

Poet’s Sampler: Lynn Xu

Introduced by Ben Lerner

from Anoikis

Christine Garren

After Visiting Hours

Leon Weinmann

Crows, Too, Have a Means of Purring and They have Built
a Public Fountain

Anthony Madrid

Good Girls/Bad Girls

Judy Smith McDonough

The Meadow and The Fourfold

Tadeusz Dąbrowski
translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Thou

Patty Seyburn

New Year’s Resolution

Jennifer Banks

The Pursuit

Mark DeCarteret