Special Economy Issue
Fixing the Economy: Free Market Myth
Dean Baker
Tools for a New Economy
Robert Pollin
No New Tax Cuts
Jeff Madrick
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
God: Philosophers weigh in
Alex Byrne
Worldmaker: Remembering Thomas Disch
John Crowley
Poison Flow: Edward St. Aubyn takes on the English upper class
Neel Mukherjee
Fiction
Up High in the Air
Laura van den Berg
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
Poems
As One Bereft of Reason
Ken White
Topics for Amplification
Brett Fletcher Lauer
Objects
Martha Ronk
Fragment 941: Aphrodite of Kypros
Sophocles trans. by Reginald Gibbons
Dies Irae
L.S. Asekoff
Miss Peach: The Novel
Catie Rosemurgy
I Would Remain By Night With You
Joanna Klink
Sunday balustrade
Ron Winkler trans. by J.D. Schneider
Win
Rae Armantrout
Money Shot
Rae Armantrout
Icicles Tine Barnward from the Barn’s Shallow Eave
Rob Schlegel