Ahmadinejad’s Iran
Pious Populist
Abbas Milani
Half a Man
Akbar Ganji
Essays
Inventing Alexander Hamilton: The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance
William Hogeland
Words Behind Bars: Do prisoners have a right to read what they want?
Colin Dayan
Left Behind: Romanticizing Germany’s urban guerillas
Paul Hockenos
Something for Myself: Haruki Murakami’s strange world of hope
Catalina Holguín
Fiction
A Baby Is a Baby Is a Baby
Matthew Stuart
The Cynic
Charles Johnson
On Film
Making Monsters: Paul Haggis’s In the Valley of Elah
Alan A. Stone
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Matthew Dickman, introduced by Major Jackson
Winner of the tenth annual Boston Reivew poetry contest
Elizabeth Willis, introduced by Susan Stewart
His Face in the Mirror: Zbigniew Herbert’s Collected Poems: 1956–1998
W. Martin
The Testament of Mr. Cogito: Zbigniew Herbert and the limits of the political
Alissa Valles
Enlivened Parties: Joanna Klink’s Circadian and Geofrrey G. O’Brien’s Green and Gray
Reginald Shepherd
Microreviews
Poems
Variants on Binding
Stephanie Anderson
Red Glass Necklace
John Spaulding
The Whole False History of Human Beings
Arthur Vogelsang
A Skeleton I Made From Skeletons I Found
Scott Topper
The Ghost Back Home
Fred Muratori
The Old Bills
John Updike
please advise stop, I
Rusty Morrison
please advise stop, II
Rusty Morrison
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Kevin Young
