Forum
Under the Influence
Martin Gilens — with responses from:
LARRY M. BARTELS, MATTHEW YGLESIAS, KAY LEHMAN SCHLOZMAN, MARK SCHMITT, NANCY L. ROSENBLUM, JOHN FEREJOHN, BARBARA SINCLAIR, RUSS FEINGOLD, ARCHON FUNG, AND MICHAEL GECAN.
The Fighting Mind
War Is Betrayal: Persistent Myths of Combat
Chris Hedges
The Checkpoint: Terror, Power, and Cruelty
Oded Na’aman
Foundations
State of the Nation: Know Where You Stand
Anthony Fowler and Michele Margolis
Dispatch: Juárez Rebounds…Sort Of
Sarah Hill
Made In America: The Leisure Gap
Claude S. Fischer
Karlan’s Court: Forty Years After Watergate
Pamela S. Karlan
Books & Ideas
Natural Woman: Why Motherhood Returned to the Center of Women’s lives
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Forgetful Pleasures: Michel Houellebecq’s Exciting Tale of Boredom
Marta Figlerowicz
Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner
The Piano
Alexandra Thom
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Adam Fitzgerald, introduced by Joe Weil
The Literacy Revolution: Poetry, Injury, and the Ethics of Reading
Elaine Scarry
Amen: Ariana Reines’s Erotic Soul
B.K. Fischer
Microreviews
On Film
Arcadia for the Aged: John Madden’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Alan A. Stone
Poems
Waiting for Tear Gas
Tung-Hui Hu
It Is the Perpetual Today
Virginia Konchan
Essential Difference
Kiki Dimoula
Cash for Gold
Ernest Hilbert
To the White Woman on the Plane Who Doesn’t Understand My Discomfort When She Asks If She Can Touch My Hair
Torrie Valentine
After Paradise Lost
Alison Powell
Dewseaville
Daniel Tiffany
