Forum: What’s Hurting the Middle Class

Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi

With responses from Jacob S. Hacker, Jonathan Gruber, G. Marcus Cole, Jeff Madrick, Stephen Brobeck, David Crockett, Chuck Collins, A. Mechele Dickerson, Tamara Draut, Jared Bernstein, Robert D. Manning, and Juliet Schor. Warren and Tyagi reply.

I Wanted the Screen Door of Summer

Peter Gizzi

The Quest

Peter Gizzi

A Witness to Murder

Susie Linfield

Pliny I & II

Dan Chiasson

There Is a Star in the Sea

Dan Chiasson

Do the Right Thing

Rebecca Saxe

The Caedmon Room

Allen Grossman

Abandon Yourself to That Which Is Inevitable

C.D. Wright

30 Years of Boston Review

Jerzy Kosinski, Gary Snyder, Daniel C. Dennett, John Kenneth Galbraith, Adrienne Rich, John Loftus, Rita Dove, Adam Hochschild, Todd Gitlin, Seamus Heaney, David Mamet, Eugene Rivers, Ralph Nader, Christopher Hitchens, George Scialabba, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Neil Gordon, Stephen Lerner, Emily Fragos, H. Allen Orr, Susan Moller Okin, Martha C. Nussbaum, G. M. Tamás, Stewart O’Nan, Deborah Meier, Philippe Van Parijs, Alan A. Stone, Khaled Abou El Fadl, James Galvin, and Elaine Scarry

Summer of Nene

Ivelisse Rodriguez

I Know of No Better World

Ingeborg Bachmann, trans. Peter Filkins

An American Prophet

M. K. Chakrabarti

Poet’s Sampler

Thomas Lynch introduces Charlotte Boulay

Earthbound

John Koethe

Disappearing Acts

Jacob Edmond

Object Relations

Barbara Fischer

MicroReviews

Explaining Love Away

Alan A. Stone

Two Sonnets

Karen Volkman