Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

Unsafe Seats

Stephen Ansolabehere

The Heinrich Maneuver

Andrew Schrank

Essays

Legerdemath

Omer Rosen

Heckuva Job

Richard Newsom

Karlan’s Court

Ten Years After
Pamela S. Karlan

Robocop

Drones At Home
Joseph Nevins

No Objections

What History Tells Us About Remaking Marriage
Nancy F. Cott

Saving Souls

David Grossman’s Article of Faith
Vivian Gornick

Harm’s Way

Understanding Race and Punishment
James Forman, Jr.

Business As Usual

The Next Wall Street Collapse
Jonathan Kirshner

Poor Reason

Culture still doesn’t explain poverty
Stephen Steinberg—Web only

The Wrong Crisis

The importance of the housing bubble
Dean Baker—Web only

Song of Solomon Transformed My Life

An Interview
Junot Díaz with Dave Eggers—Web only

Fiction

Guinea Pig

Charles Johnson

On Film

Forgiving Woody

Woody Allen’s You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Our Poems, Ourselves

Does Autobiography Make Good Poetry?
Stephen Burt

Microreviews

Rachel Loden
Kate Greenstreet
Ken Chen
Monica Youn
Barbara Claire Freeman

Poems

Poet’s Sampler

Monica Mody
Introduced by Joyelle McSweeney

invasion of the body snatchers;
forgetting something

Nick Flynn

Nativity

Carolyn Forché

The Insentientist

Stephanie Adams-Santos

Poem In a Book That Was Never Opened

Timothy O’Keefe

My Daughter’s Body

Jennifer Franklin

Follow;
In Wind: Blunt: Closer

Rae Gouirand

Underlight;
Underlight

Aaron McCollough

Snow Globe With Frank O’Hara and Arboretum

Joni Wallace

Entrance Liturgy

Dawn Marie Knopf

Back When Post-War Vienna

Kyle Thompson