Marriage Won’t Cure Poverty

Philip N. Cohen

The Haifa Mob

Noam Chayut

The Good in Standardized Testing

Lelac Almagor

Overtaking

Sean Zhuraw

Do Ideas Matter?

Claude S. Fischer

Wonders

Anne Fausto-Sterling

Forum: Against Empathy

Paul Bloom

With responses from Leslie Jamison, Peter Singer, Leonardo Christov-Moore and Marco Iacoboni, Jack W. Berry and Lynn E. O’Connor, Barbara H. Fried, Simon Baron-Cohen, Marianne LaFrance, Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, Nomy Arpaly, Sam Harris, Christine Montross, and Jesse Prinz. Bloom replies.

Syria in Revolt

Sadik J. Al-Azm

Olfactory Cues

Martha Zweig

Any Further West

Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Hart Crane in LA, 1927

Peter Balakian

A Cold Hand Draws the Covers Over the Moon

Larry Sawyer

God’s Country

Richard White

Reviewed:

The Heathen School

by John Demos. Knopf, 2014.

One Size Fits All and Then Some

Jeff Alessandrelli

Veer, Oscillate, Rest

Carrie Etter

Baby, Take a Bow

Judith Levine

Reviewed:

The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression

by John F. Kasson. W. W. Norton, 2014.

Rethinking Privacy

William H. Simon

Curio

Meghan Privitello

Poet’s Sampler

Amy King introduces Ocean Vuong

How To Give a Damn

Jo Ann Clark

Reviewed:

Under the Sign

by Ann Lauterbach. Penguin, 2013.

Epic Hour

Sherod Santos

Dear Friend,

Alan Gilbert

Reviewed:

Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters

ed. Claudia Moreno Pisano. University of New Mexico Press, 2013.

The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley

ed. Rod Smith, Peter Baker, and Kaplan Harris. University of California Press, 2014.

Gedankenexperiment

Sean Bishop

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

X Marks the Dress: A Registry

by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess. Gold Wake Press, 2013.

Peace

by Gillian Conoley. Omnidawn, 2014.

The Pedestrians

by Rachel Zucker. Wave Books, 2014.

Chord Box

by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers. University of Arkansas Press, 2013.

Submitting to Truth

Alan A. Stone

Celtic Star

Mariusz Smiejek