Big Organic

Wenonah Hauter

Hosts

Matthew Fishbane

Dragon’s Blood

Sidney W. Mintz

Happiness Policy

Claude S. Fischer

Contempt of Court

Pamela S. Karlan

Sweet Forgiveness

Mike Konczal

With responses from Dean Baker, G. Marcus Cole, Tamara Draut, Louis Hyman, Jacob S. Hacker and Nathaniel Loewentheil, Mark A. Calabria, Robert C. Hockett, and Barbara H. Fried. Konczal replies.

It’s A Small World

Ariel Dorfman

Poem Beginning with a Line from Gammer Gurton’s Needle

John Ashbery

Recent History

John Ashbery

On Ninjas

Jane Yeh

Remarkable Facts

Elliot Sober

Reviewed:

Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False

by Thomas Nagel. Oxford University Press, 2012.

Station

Andrew Zawacki

A March to the Grave

Roger Boylan

Reviewed:

Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

ed. Michael Hofmann. W. W. Norton, 2012.

No Sky

Martha Ronk

Elegy

Martha Ronk

To Be Fair

Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson

Reviewed:

Free Market Fairness

by John Tomasi. Princeton University Press, 2012.

Là

Andrew Zawacki

Poetry Contest Winner

Sarah Crossland, selected by Mathhea Harvey

The Suffering of Others

David Micah Greenberg

Reviewed:

Place

by Jorie Graham. Ecco, 2012.

Echoes

Lindsay Turner

Reviewed:

I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women

ed. Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody, and Vanessa Place. Les Figues Press, 2012.

To the Shopping Mall

Vincent Guerra

Black Like Me

Alan A. Stone

Inside

Paolo Marchetti