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April/May 2004

What We Owe to Parents

Anne Alstott on how public policy can support the hard work of raising children. With Robin West, Amy L. Wax, Eva Kittay, Dorothy Roberts, and others. Helena Cobban on the uncertain future of secular Palestinian nationalism; Diego Gambetta on post-9/11 irrationality, and more.

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WHAT WE OWE TO PARENTS
ANNE ALSTOTT
WITH RESPONSES FROM ROBIN WEST, AMY L. WAX, EVA KITTAY, DOROTHY ROBERTS, DEBORAH STONE, AND RICHARD A. EPSTEIN.
Essays
End of the Wild    NOW A BOOK!
Stephen M. Meyer
Peter A. Diamond and Peter R. Orszag
Helena Cobban
Diego Gambetta
Fiction
Ander Monson
Nonfiction Review
Three books on the Riemann Hypothesis
Jascha Hoffman
New Fiction Forum
Bruce Wagner’s Hollywood
Rachel Cline
On writing Kings of Infinite Space
James Hynes
Poetry Essays and Reviews
National Poetry Month, without lament
Hank Lazer 
Ezra Pound’s Poems and Translations and The Pisan Cantos
Marjorie Perloff 
Jacqueline Brogan’s The Violence Within/The Violence Without
John Hulsey
John Kinsella’s Peripheral Light
Emily Apter
On Film
Gillo Pontecorvo’s Burn! 
Alan A. Stone
Poetry
Li Hou Zhu
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
Reuben Silberman
Daniel Tiffany
Elizabeth Scanlon
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
Introduced by David St. John
Caroline Knox
Shannon Welch

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