Forum: In the National Interest

Stephen M. Walt

With responses from Richard Falk, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Ervand Abrahamian, Khalil Shikaki, Naomi Chazan, Robert Vickers Jr., Mahmood Mamdani, John Tirman, lvo Daalder, James Lindsay, Mary Kaldor, and Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Sunday Afternoon

Stephen Berg

Hungry for Air

Deborah Stone

The Blemish of Conquest

Martin van Creveld

The Good Empire

Vivek Chibber

Reviewed:

Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire

by Niall Ferguson. Penguin Press, 2005.

Cloud of Witnesses

G. C. Waldrop

Cold War Casualties

Neta C. Crawford

Reviewed:

Cold War Triumphalism

ed. Ellen Schrecker. New Press, 2004.

Corridor

Honor Moore

American Soup

Claudio Lomnitz

Reviewed:

Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity

by Samuel Huntington. Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Disparu

Honor Moore

Truth in Numbers

Stephen Ansolabhere and Charles Stewart III

My Good Man

Eric Gansworth

No Dream

James Longenbach

New Jews from the Old Country

Val Vinokur

Reviewed:

Natasha and Other Stories

by David Bezmosgis. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2004.

The Place Will Comfort You

by Naama Goldstein. Scribner, 2004.

Scream Queens of the Dead Sea

by Gilad Elbom. Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2004.

The Russian Debutante’s Handbook

by Gary Shteyngart. Riverhead Books, 2002.

There Are Jews in My House

by Lara Vapnyar. Pantheon, 2003.

Love Poem

Danielle Pieratti

Longing for God

Darcey Steinke

Poet’s Sampler

Lisa Jarnot introduces Stacy Szymaszek

Strange Relations

DeSales Harrison

Reviewed:

March Book

by Jesse Ball. Grove Press, 2004.

The Clerk’s Tale

by Spencer Reece. Mariner Books, 2004.

Facts for Visitors

by Srikanth Reddy. University of California Press, 2004.

An Unillusioned Life

Stephen Burt

Reviewed:

Collected Poems

by Donald Justice. Knopf, 2004.

The Ethics of Language

Alan Gilbert

Reviewed:

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

by Claudia Rankine. Graywolf Press, 2004.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

What Animal

by Oni Buchanan. University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Matter

by Bin Ramke. University of Iowa Press, 2004.

Otherhood

by Reginald Shepherd. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.

Goest

by Cole Swensen. Alice James Books, 2004.

saints & or: notes in the form of sonnets (millay effects)

Michael Farrell

For God and Country

Alan A. Stone