Forum
What Killed Egyptian Democracy?
Mohammad Fadel — with responses from:
ELLIS GOLDBERG, MICHELINE ISHAY, NATHAN J. BROWN, ANDREW F. MARCH, AKBAR GANJI, AND ANNE NORTON.
Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
State of the Nation: Who’s Hot?
John Sides and Michael Tesler
Dispatch: Under the Cross in China
Xiao-bo Yuan
Made in America: Libertarianism Is Very Strange
Claude S. Fischer
Karlan’s Court: Out of Alignment
Pamela S. Karlan
Context
Stateless in Dubai: The U.A.E.’s Brewing Crisis<
Katie Cella
Fiction
Seascape
Holly Pekowsky
Books & Ideas
An America That Never Was: Norman Rockwell’s Vision
Elizabeth Hand
Is Life a Ponzi Scheme? Samuel Scheffler’s Death and the Afterlife
Mark Johnston
Schools and Citizens: Diane Ravitch’s Reign of Error
Robin West
Who Wants to Be Human? Gregory Berns’s How Dogs Love Us
Colin Dayan
Lost Radicals: Michael C. Dawson’s Blacks In and Out of the Left
Eric Mann
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Maud Poole, introduced by Cate Marvin
Sieves of Consciousness: Mary Ruefle’s Trances of the Blast
B.K. Fischer
Turbulence: Ed Skoog’s Rough Day
Broc Rossell
Microreviews
On Film
Forgetting the Holocaust: Brian Percival’s The Book Thief
Alan A. Stone
Poems
From the First Book of Far Away
Eileen G’Sell
Letter from the Ice Field, December
Sara Eliza Johnson
Explanation
Josh Kalscheur
Vaulted Forms
Adam Fagin
The Mother’s Song
Henry Israeli
Wolf Cento
Simone Muench
Palisades Kepler
Mary Margaret Alvarado
Sonnet for My Son
Henk Rossouw
