Exit Strategy

STATE OF THE NATION

NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM

Exit Strategy: How to Disengage from Iraq in 18 Months

Barry R. Posen

With Barbara K. Bodine, Joseph R. Biden Jr., Vivek Chibber, Russell D. Feingold, Randall Forsberg, Lawrence Korb and Brian Katulis, Helena Cobban, Christopher Preble, Eliot Weinberger, and Nir Rosen

ESSAYS

The Drifters: Why the Supreme Court Makes Justices More LIberal

Jon D. Hanson and Adam Benforado

France’s Revolt: Can the Republic Live Up to its Ideals?

John R. Bowen

A World Without Race: Does Black Nationalism Have to Go Too?

Dorothy Roberts

NEW FICTION FORUM

December Story

D.S. Sulaitis

A Cartoon World: Daniel Clowes’s Ice Haven

Ken Parille

Ian McEwan’s Family Values: Saturday and Other Novels

Roger Boylan

ON POETRY

Borrowed Lines: Mark Nowak’s Shut Up Shut Down and Eleni Sikeliano’s The Book of Jon

Susan M. Schultz

Writing on White Air: First Books by Ander Monson, Michelle Robinson, and Sam Taylor

Jennifer Grotz

Keeping Company: Michael Palmer’s Company of Moths

Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Microreviews

ON FILM

Trapped: Rodrigo Garcia’s Nine Lives

Alan A. Stone

POEMS

Grass Psalm

Ales Debeljak, translated by Andrew Zawacki and the author

Unnecessary Noise Prohibited

1. Durning Carroll

In the Scanner

Robley Evans

Winter Field

Joanna Klink

My Husband Sat Up

Caroline Knox

Surrender of Breda

Ernest Hilbert

Victim of the Culture of Facelessness

Thylias Moss

from ‘Helsinki’

Peter Richards

Poet’s Sampler

Dan Chelotti, introduced by Dara Wier