After Prison
Reentry
Bruce Western
No Further Harm
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein and Mary Lyndon Shanley
Guarded Hope
Robert Perkinson
Essays
State of the Nation: Electricity and Elections
Stephen Ansolabehere
Outside the Big Box: Who speaks for today’s small businesses?
Nicole D. Kazee, Michael Lipsky, and Cathie Jo Martin
Response to Outside the Big Box
Todd O. McCracken
Bolt from the Blue: The promise and problems of Obama’s faith-based plan
Lew Daly
Fault Lines: Inside Rumsfeld’s Pentagon
Andrew J. Bacevich
The Gunslinger: John Bolton’s Surrender is Not an Option
Stephen J. Stedman
The Mirror: Imagining justice in Palestine
Elias Khoury
We Laughed, We Cried: Flann O’Brien’s triumph
Roger Boylan
Fiction
Gone
Danielle Lazarin
On Film
A Different Drum: Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor
Alan A. Stone
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Youna Kwak, introduced by Joanna Klink
Over the Last Limit: Resurrecting Vladimir Mayakovsky
Marjorie Perloff
Free Verse: Alan Filreis’s Counter-Revolution of the Word
Charles Bernstein
Landmarks: Kathleen Jamie’s Waterlight and Findings
Tess Taylor
Microreviews
Poems
occasional for hollow bones
Victoria Brockmeier
Fear of the Possible
Anna Catone
Baited Sonnet
Brian Henry
The Coast of What
Brian Henry
North Cambridge
John Koethe
Interview under Hypnosis
Jennifer Militello
Pure Indonesia
Allan Peterson
Stripes of Knowing How Much Further I Had to Go
Amy Newlove Schroeder
The Lost Tin Myth
Lytton Smith