May/June 2013

 

Can Global Brands Create Just Supply Chains?

Richard M. Locke

With responses from Isaac Shapiro, Tim Bartley, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel, Gary Gereffi, Hannah Jones, Pamela Passman, Drusilla Brown, Aseem Prakash, and Layna Mosley. Richard M. Locke replies.

 

Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

 

Foundations

State of the Nation: A Costly Defense

Cindy Williams

 

Exhuming Neruda

Stephen Phelan

 

Getting Smarter

Claude S. Fischer

 

Founding Firearms

Pamela S. Karlan

 

Context

“No to Profit”

Fighting Privatization in Chile
Lili Loofbourow

 

Private Life

Picking Pebbles

The Morality of Choice
Deborah Stone

 

Books & Ideas

On Being an Octopus

Diving Deep in Search of the
Human Mind
Peter Godfrey-Smith

 

Unacceptable

Recovering Paul Goodman
Judith Levine

 

Little, Big

Two Ideas About Fighting
Global Poverty
Pranab Bardhan

 

Fiction

The Forgetting Shiraz

E. Lily Yu

 

On Film

Lolita in Japan

Abbas Kiarostami’s
Like Someone in Love
Alan A. Stone

 

On Poetry

“Discovery” Contest Winners

Catherine Blauvelt, Julia Guez,
Erika L. Sánchez, and Raena Shirali

 

New Nature

Women Poets Escape Family—
and Convention
Katie Peterson

 

A More Ordinary Poet

Seeking Emily Dickinson
Gillian Osborne

 

Poems

To Be a God

Justin Boening

Declining Public Appetite for Large Wars of Occupation

Dara Wier

from The Uses of the Body

Deborah Landau

Hold the Finch

Jean Valentine

Leopold Stokowski tells Marian Anderson, “My roof is too low
for you.”

Elizabeth Robinson

A Fly Inside a Fly a Thought Inside a Thought and Mario Santiago Inside Mario Santiago

Roberto Bolaño (translated by
Laura Healy)

Ecstasy

Jane Miller

Song of Upbringing

Chuya Nakahara (translated by Christian Nagle)

American Psalm

Dean Rader

The Boy Under the Car

John Freeman