Paul Hockenos on a group of young anarchists in East Berlin. Plus: Henry Farrell on Ireland’s Cold War; Mike Konczal on public goods, profits, and state legitimacy; Vivian Gornick on the state of contemporary feminism; Stephen Phelan after Scotland’s Independence Referendum.Â
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Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
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Paul Hockenos
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Ireland’s Cold War
Henry Farrell
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Brazil’s Era of Possibility
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Foundations
State of the Nation: Big Spenders
Andrew Mayersohn
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Made in America: Slumming It
Claude S. Fischer
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Wonders: Democratic Science
Anne Fausto-Sterling
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Fiction
What Happened to the Bird People
Monique Wentzel
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Books & Ideas
Good Feminist: Three new books on feminism
Vivian Gornick
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Selling Fast: Public Goods, Profits, and State Legitimacy
Mike Konczal
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The Russians Came!
Val Vinokur
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On Poetry
Seventeenth Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest
francine j. harris selected by Major Jackson
Poems About Poems
Stephen Burt
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The Flame in the Grate: Uche Nduka’s Surrealism
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On Film
Alan A. Stone
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Poems
Spill
Beth Bachmann
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Archaeology: Toolbox with Level
Cara Chamberlain
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Survival Italian
Chad Davidson
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Two Poems: Portrait of a Hanged Woman and Lamentation of a Hanged Man
Monica Youn
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Goodbye to All That, the Birds Included
Adam Clay
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Urban Fantasy
Denise Duhamel
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