Forum: Phaeton’s Reins

Kerry Emanuel

With responses from Nicholas Stern; David G. Victor and Danny Cullenward; Kirsten Oleson and Chandra Shekhar Sinha; Jeffrey Logan, Joanna Lewis, and Michael B. Cummings; and Judy Layzer and William Moomaw.

Cymbalta

Stephanie Cleveland

Youth Is Not Absolution for Treachery; It Is a Morning Star of Some Kind

Travis Nichols

The Eden Archives

John Isles

Truth, Lies, and Accountability

Joseph Nevins

The Beginning of Wisdom

Vivian Gornick

They Are Still Rather Lovely

John Ashbery

The Crucible

Maureen N. McLane

Reviewed:

Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States

by Janice M. Irvine. University of California Press, 2004.

When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex—and Sex Education—Since the Sixties

by Kristin Luker. W. W. Norton, 2006.

Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th Century

by Jeffrey Moran. Harvard University Press, 2002.

The Gift

James Longenbach

Orientalism Revisited

Lawrence Rosen

Streakiness

John Ashbery

Inside the Madrasa

Ebrahim Moosa

He Does an Act with Colored Cards

Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle

Holyoke, Mass.: An Ethnography

Ivelisse Rodriguez

The Quiet Man

Roger Boylan

Hydrosaurus

Rebecca Reynolds

Car Rolls Off Clay Wade Bailey Bridge

Erica Bernheim

Poet’s Sampler

Matthea Harvey introduces Jynne Dilling Martin

Last Laughs

Tanya Larkin

Reviewed:

The Collected Poems of Kenneth Koch

Knopf, 2007.

The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch

Coffee House Press, 2005.

Whole New World

Brian Teare

Reviewed:

Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005

by Alice Notley. Wesleyan University Press, 2006.

Bewitched

Joyelle McSweeney

Reviewed:

Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRm**K*T, and Muse & Drudge

by Haryette Mullen. Graywolf Press, 2006.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

biography of water

by Carrie Bennett. The Word Works, 2005.

Journey to the Lost City

by Jonathan Aaron. Ausable Press, 2006.

Lug Your Careless Body Out of the Careful Dusk

by Joshua Marie Wilkinson. University of Iowa Press, 2006.

Quarantine

by Brian Henry. Ahsahta Press, 2006.

Past Imperfect

by Suzanne Buffam. House of Anansi Press, 2005.

Good Will

Alan A. Stone