Free and Fair

STATE OF THE NATION

 

FREE AND FAIR

 

The Rebel and Mr. Danger: Is Bush’s Nightmare Venezuela’s Salvation?

Greg Grandin

 

Hamas’s Next Steps: Finding the Road to Palestine

Helena Cobban

 

The Brotherhood: How Far Will Egypt’s Islamists Go?

Stephen Glain

 

Memory Place: Argentina’s Campaign Against the Past

Marc B. Haefele

 

ESSAYS

 

Job’s Hope: On Not Knowing God

Ben Zion-Gold

 

What Mind-Body Problem? Understanding Consciousness May Be Easier than We Thought

Alex Byrne

 

Politics As Usual: How the Republicans Came to Rule the South

Jefferson Decker

 

NEW FICTION FORUM

 

How to Escape from a Leper Colony: Winner of Boston Review’s 13th Annual Fiction Contest

Tiphanie Yanique

 

Name Calling: Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt

Andrée Greene

 

Bridge Building: On Writing Brookland

Emily Barton

 

ON POETRY

 

Extended Play: Elizabeth Bishop’s Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box

John Palattella

 

Talk, Talk, Talk: David Antin’s i never knew what time it was

Ernest Larsen

 

A Waiting Heart: John Koethe’s Sally Hair

Robert Hahn

 

Microreviews

 

ON FILM

 

Judgment Day: Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain and Paul Haggis’s Crash

Alan A. Stone

 

POEMS

 

That Everything’s Inevitable

Katy Lederer

 

A Triumvirate

Katy Lederer

 

from Letters to Michael

Mark McMorris

 

A Village Journal

Sandra Lim

 

Fate

Robert Desnos, translated by William Kulik

 

Furniture of the World

Kathy Nilsson

 

from Shy Green Fields

Hugh Steinberg

 

Poet’s Sampler

Jenny Boully, introduced by Mary Jo Bang