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May/June 2015

Curbing the New Corporate Power

Sabeel Rahman leads a forum on regulating the growing power of internet companies. Juliet Schor, Dean Baker, Mike Konczal, and others respond. Plus, Jess Row, Katie Peterson, Meghan O’Gieblyn, Dave Byrne, and more.

 

K. Sabeel Rahman leads a forum on regulating the growing power of Internet companies. Juliet Schor, Dean Baker, Mike Konczal, and others respond. Jess Row on American cynicism as a (white) lifestyle; Katie Peterson on Jorie Graham; Meghan O’Gieblyn reviews Jon Ronson’s So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed; Dave Byrne on Lead Belly.

Forum 

Curbing the New Corporate Power

K. SABEEL RAHMAN

WITH RESPONSES FROM JULIET B. SCHOR, DEAN BAKER, ADAM THIERER, ROBIN CHASE, ARUN SUNDARARAJAN, DAVID BOLLIER, SOFIA RANCHORDÁS, MIKE KONCZAL, AND RICHARD WHITE.

Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
 

Foundations

Dispatch: Leaving ISIS
Umar Farooq
Made in America: Left Out
Claude S. Fischer

Books & Ideas

American Cynicism and Its Cure
Jess Row
 
A Good, Bad, Hard, Easy Life: Smithsonian Folkways’ Lead Belly<
Dave Byrne
 

On Poetry

“Discovery” contest winners

Jessica Fjeld, Jenny George, Margaret Reges, and Kit Schluter

An Extra Life: Jorie Graham’s From the New World
Katie Peterson
 
Online-only Poet’s Sampler
Rowan Ricardo Phillips introduces translations of Melcion Mateu
 
 

Microreviews

Aaron Kunin’s Cold Genius

Daniel Tiffany

Alice Fulton’s Barely Composed

Magdalena Edwards

Joanna Penn Cooper’s What Is A Domicile

Carlo Matos

Samantha Giles’s Deadfalls and Snares.

Anna Moschovakis

Tarfia Faizullah’s Seam
Carina del Valle Schorska 
 
 

On Film

Human Frailties: Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu
Alan A. Stone
 

Poems

Bookcase
Trent Busch
 
Spring
Sumita Chakraborty
 
Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts
Dara Wier
 
I’m A Young Cowboy and Know I’ve Done Wrong
Catherine Pond
 
To the Celto-Ligurians
Don Bogen
 
Say Goodbye to the Shores (Catullus 101)
Mike Lala
 
The World
Eileen G’Sell
 
Treadmill
Chuck Tripi
 
Natural Intelligence
Ben Purkert
 
 
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