John Bowen leads a forum on France After Charlie Hebdo. Arthur Goldhammer, Joan Wallach Scott, Haroon Moghul, and others respond. Jessa Crispin writes on the incorporation of victimhood into women’s identities; Randall Kennedy warns against the legacy of black power revisionism; Claude Fischer on political correctness. Plus, new poems by Jorie Graham and Yusef Komunyakaa.
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France After Charlie Hebdo
John R. Bowen
WITH RESPONSES FROM ARTHUR GOLDHAMMER, DIDIER FASSIN, JOAN WALLACH SCOTT, HAROON MOGHUL, MAYANTHI L. FERNANDO, JOSEPH MASSAD, DAVID D. LAITIN, MICHÈLE LAMONT AND NICOLAS DUVOUX, AND MALEIHA MALIK.
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
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Foundations
State of the Nation: Offensive Lobbying
Lee Drutman
Dispatch: Paradise
Matthew Fishbane
Made in America: Censor This
Claude S. Fischer
Private Life
Fiction
At the Birthplace of Sound
Akil Kumarasamy
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Books & Ideas
The End: The Politics of American Apocalypse
Meghan O’Gieblyn
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Dead Man Talking: Brazil’s Spiritists Redefine Religion
Laura Premack
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On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Damian Rogers introduced by Hoa Nguyen
Unruly Thoughts
Kimiko Hahn’s Brain Fever
Benjamin Landry
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Cold Comfort: New books by Robin Clarke, Page Hill Starzinger, and Harmony Holiday
Natalie Shapero
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Microreviews
Rob Schlegel’s January Machine,
Jeff Alessandrelli
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C.A. Conrad’s Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness
Charles Legere
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TJ Jarrett’s Zion
Heather Treseler
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Olena Kalytiak Davis’s The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems
Jeanine Deibel
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Sandra Lim’s The Wilderness.
Krystal Languell
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On Film
The Ugly Truth: Ava DuVernay’s Selma
Alan A. Stone
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Poems
from The Enmeshments
Jorie Graham
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When Tony Hoagland Says My Maternal Instincts Are Impressive
Jenny Browne
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Girl with Ox
Paula Bohince
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Two Poems Â
Yusef Komunyakaa
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The Server
Justin Phillip Reed
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How to Bring Your Children to America
Hafizah Geter
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