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January/February 2009

Next Steps

Fixing the Economy: Dean Baker on market regulation, Robert Pollin’s proposals for a financial regulatory system, Jeff Madrick on big government.

David Cole on closing Guantánamo; Barnett R. Rubin on Afghan elites; Abbas Milani on democracy in Iran; a poem by Rae Armantrout.

Special Economy Issue

Fixing the Economy: Free Market Myth

Dean Baker

Essays

State of the Nation: Amazing Race

Stephen Ansolabehere and Charles Stewart III

Closing Guantánamo: The problem of preventive detention

David Cole

A Tribe Apart: Afghan elites face a corrosive past

Barnett R. Rubin

Common Cause: Real help for Iranian democrats

Abbas Milani

Worldmaker: Remembering Thomas Disch

John Crowley

Poison Flow: Edward St. Aubyn takes on the English upper class

Neel Mukherjee

Fiction

On Film

The Mind’s Eye: Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York

Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Poet’s Sampler

Brandon Shimoda, introduced by Karen Volkman

Water Damage: Two new collections challenge lyric’s decorum

Amelia Klein

Revelation: The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest

Brian Teare

Microreviews

Charles Simic

Chelsey Minnis

Amy Newman

Craig Morgan Teicher

Poems

Fragment 941: Aphrodite of Kypros

Sophocles trans. by Reginald Gibbons

I Would Remain By Night With You

Joanna Klink

Icicles Tine Barnward from the Barn’s Shallow Eave

Rob Schlegel

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