Forum
How Finance Gutted Manufacturing
Suzanne Berger — with responses from:
DEAN BAKER, JOEL ROGERS AND DAN LURIA, DAN BREZNITZ, SUSAN N. HOUSEMAN, MIKE ROSE, NICHOLA LOWE, J. PHILLIP THOMPSON, GARY HERRIGEL, CATHERINE TUMBER, AND DAVID WEIL. SUZANNE BERGER REPLIES.
Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Dispatch: Stop and Look
Matthew Fishbane
Made in America: Eco-Puritans
Claude S. Fischer
Wonders: Letting Go of Normal
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Context
It’s Only Fair: And Other Reasons for a Minimum Wage Hike
Mike Konczal
Fiction
Mother Issues
Christa Romanosky
Books & Ideas
Roads to Utopia: Dan Hancox’s The Village Against the World
Sarah Hill
Mortal Risks: The Possibility of Self-Sacrifice
Oded Na’aman
The Big Dig: Steven Moore’s The Novel: An Alternative History (1600–1800)
Roger Boylan
On Poetry
On Surveillance
Poems by Robert Pinsky, Charles Bernstein, Harmony Holiday, Cathy Park Hong, John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, Noelle Kocot, and Richard Greenfield.
Nearly Baroque
Stephen Burt
Poet’s Sampler
Timothy Liu introduces John Duvernoy
Microreviews
On Film
Loser: Ethan and Joel Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis
Alan A. Stone
Poems
The Ache the Ache
Julia Cohen
The dead inscribed, alphabetical, within
Susan Stewart
Satisfaction of the Instincts
Eric Linsker
Dark, Understated Romantic Comedies
Chris Hosea
My Mother Reading in the Land of the Dead
Joe Weil
By the Way
C. Dale Young
Orbit
Alice Miller
