Forum
Justice is Good for Our Health
HOW GREATER ECONOMIC EQUALITY WOULD PROMOTE PUBLIC HEALTH.
NORMAN DANIELS, BRUCE KENNEDY, ICHIRO KAWACHI
RESPONSES FROM MICHAEL MARMOT; MARCIA ANGELL; SUDHIR ANAND AND FABIENNE PETER,;TED MARMOR; EZEKIEL EMANUEL; BARBARA STARFIELD; EMMANUELA GAKIDOU, JULIO FRENK, AND CHRISTOPHER MURRAY; STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER AND DAVID HIMMELSTEIN; DANIELS, KENNEDY, AND KAWACHI RESPOND
Essays
The deadly legacy of America’s air war in Laos.
Kieko Matteson and Robert Perkinson
The Cult of Authenticity
India’s cultural commissars worship “Indianness” instead of art.
India’s cultural commissars worship “Indianness” instead of art.
Vikram Chandra
Fiction
Molly Melina Sultan
New Fiction Forum
The enduring highbrow fascination with detective stories.
David Lehman
Alice Elliott Dark’s In the Gloaming and Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring
Felicia Ackerman
Lucia Berlin’s Where I Live Now and Liza Weiland’s You Can Sleep While I Drive
Susan Daitch
How the publishing industry is failing readers–and how it could do better.
Neal Gabler
Stewart O’Nan
James Hynes
Randall Curb
Nonfiction Review
Poetry Reviews
Max Winter
Andrew Osborn
Reginald Shepherd
Poetry
introduced by Susan Wheeler
Anna Rabinowitz
Andrew Zawacki
E. A. Hilbert
Christine Hume
Cole Swensen
Cole Swensen
Lynn Melnick
Joshua Clover
On Film
American Beauty and Elaine Scarry look for aesthetic experience in unexpected places.
Alan A. Stone