Republicans’ 2012 Electoral Problem

Stephen Ansolabehere

A Beautiful Place

Ahmed Moor

How to Write About Africa

Anna Clark

Like A Dog

Colin Dayan

Me, Inc.

Pamela S. Karlan

Forum: China’s Other Revolution

Edward S. Steinfeld

With responses from Andrew G. Walder, Helen H. Wang, Baogang He, Ying Ma, and Guobin Yang. Steinfeld replies.

Europeans Against Multiculturalism

John R. Bowen

Evening in the Company of Undecided Birds

Cal Bedient

Aviator on the Prowl

Kalpana Narayanan, selected by Francisco Goldman

Passage

Alex Dimitrov

Song for Sonoma

Tess Taylor

All About Obama

Mark Schmitt

Reviewed:

The Promise: President Obama, Year One

by Mark Schmitt. Simon & Schuster, 2010.

Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama

by Eric Alterman. Nation Books, 2011.

The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism

by Roger D. Hodge. Harper, 2010.

Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition

by James T. Kloppenberg. Princeton University Press, 2010.

Age of Fracture

by Daniel T. Rodgers. Harvard University Press, 2011.

America! America!

Ricardo Alberto Maldonado

On the March

Paul Hockenos

Square Dance

Megan Pugh

Reviewed:

Leaps in the Dark: Art and the World

ed. Agnes de Mille and Mindy Aloff. University Press of Florida, 2011.

The Gift Shop

Cate Peebles

A Too-Modest Proposal

Avner Inbar and Assaf Sharon

Reviewed:

What is a Palestinian State Worth?

by Sari Nusseibeh. Harvard University Press, 2011.

From Love, Imagination

Sarah Sarai

So Tender Beauty

Sarah Sarai

In the Details

Stephanie Burt

Reviewed:

As Much As

by Allan Peterson. Salmon Poetry, 2011.

From the Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Paradox

Brian Blanchfield

When That Becomes This

David Micah Greenberg

If Hounds

Genevieve Burger-Weiser

Poet’s Sampler

Cate Marvin and Wayne Johns introduces Jack Rodney

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Emporium

by Ian Pindar. Carcanet, 2011.

Your Father on the Train of Ghosts

by G. C. Waldrep and John Gallagher. BOA Editions, 2011.

The Lesser Fields

by Rob Schlegel. Center for Literary Publishing, 2010.

Ventrakl

by Christian Hawkey. Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010.

On Tact, & The Made Up World

by Michele Glazer. University of Iowa Press, 2010.

Bin Laden: The Movie

Alan A. Stone

ROTC Kills

John Koethe

In the Time of President Abdullah Saleh

David Heiden