Railroad Blues

Jonathan Rodden and Jowei Chen

A Little Help

David William Turner

Straight Shooter

Matt Gallagher

Priest, Gangster, Drinker, Gent

Roger Boylan

Extreme Injury

Elaine Scarry

Sometimes An Amendment Is Just An Amendment

Pamela S. Karlan

Forum: Regime Change Doesn’t Work

Alexander B. Downes

With responses from Greg Grandin, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Neta C. Crawford, James D. Fearon, Mary Kaldor, John Tirman, Tod Lindberg, and Joanne Landy. Downes replies.

End of the Road

Fawaz A. Gerges

After Battle

Karen Lepri

The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux

Noam Chomsky

Thirty Seconds From Now

John Chu

The Rock in Mid-Lake Disappears & I Who Might

Jeanne Larsen

Lottery

Ania Shivani

My Hungry Soul

Vivian Gornick

Reviewed:

Alfred Kazin’s Journals

ed. Richard M. Cook. Yale University Press, 2011.

October

Joseph Fasano

Bugger Off

Evgeny Morozov

Reviewed:

Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies

by Susan Landau. MIT Press, 2011.

Of Late Fashion

Scott Provence

Gone Missing

David Gorin

Reviewed:

Metropole

by Geoffrey G. O’Brien. University of California Press, 2011.

In From the Cold

Alissa Valles

Reviewed:

Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West

by Clare Cavanagh. Yale University Press, 2009.

Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets

by Irena Grudzinska Gross. Yale University Press, 2009.

Used-to Lives On

C. J. Sage

Poet’s Sampler

Erika Meitner introduces Lauren Jensen

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Mule

by Shane McCrae. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2010.

Engulf – Enkindle

by Anja Utler, trans. Kurt Beals. Burning Deck, 2010.

Strata

by Ewa Chrusciel. Emergency Press, 2011.

The Difficult Farm

by Heather Christle. Octopus Books, 2009.

Raptus

by Joanna Klink. Penguin Poets, 2010.

Imagining Faith

Alan S. Stone

Soup Is One Form of Salt Water

Heather Christle

Yes

Anthony Opal

Plunge

Matt Richter