A Rock and a Hard Place

Umar Farooq

A Street Divided

Claude S. Fischer

“Female Viagra” is No Feminist Triumph

Anne Fausto-Sterling

The Refugee Crisis is Here to Stay

Elizabeth Dunn

Forum: The Lure of Luxury

Paul Bloom

With responses from Susan A. Gelman, Virginia Postrel, Shamus Khan, Nicholas A. Christakis, David Cloutier, Debra Satz, Bruce Hood, Joel M. Podolny, Will Wilkinson, and Judith Levine. Bloom replies.

Reliable Rebel

Martin O’Neill

Bad Intelligence

Corey Van Landingham

I Am Karl Marx

Jen Levitt

Speaking in Tongues

Dave Byrne

Courtyard Fire

Arthur Sze

Archive Fever

Hal-Dang Phan

The Wheel

Samantha Leese

A Brief History of the Human Ear

Bruce Bond

A Servant Heart

James Chappel

The Maker

J. Estanislao Lopez

Ghost in the Machine

Jenny Hendrix

Reviewed:

Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Digital Age

by Sven Birkerts. Graywolf Press, 2015.

Wordsworth

Cole Swensen

Forensic Pseudoscience

Nathan Robinson

On Styrofoam

Zoë Hitzig

Inequality Is Not Our Fate

Stuart White

Reviewed:

Inequality: What Can Be Done?

by Anthony B. Atkinson. Harvard University Press, 2015.

Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

by Paul Mason. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2015.

The Economics of Inequality

by Thomas Piketty, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Harvard University Press, 2015.

Eighteenth Annual Poetry Contest

Cathy Park Hong introduces Safiya Sinclair

Everyone’s Problem

Jessica Bozek

Reviewed:

Split

by Cathy Linh Che. Alice James Books, 2014.

Stop Wanting

by Lizzie Harris. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2014.

In Deep and Out Far

David Baker

Reviewed:

Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy

by Joanna Klink. Penguin Press, 2015.

The Great Medieval Yellows

by Emily Wilson. Canarium Books, 2015.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Wolf Centos

by Simone Muench. Sarabande Books, 2014.

O’Nights

by Cecily Parks. Alice James Books, 2015.

Everytime a Knot is Undone, A God Is Released

by Barbara Chase-Riboud. Seven Stories Press, 2014.

Chord

by Rick Barot. Sarabande Books, 2015.

The Uses of the Body

by Deborah Landau. Copper Canyon Press, 2015.

don’t you worry ’bout a thing*

erica lewis

An Honest Woman

Alan A. Stone

Fusion

Tomaž Šalamun, trans. Brian Henry

Copper Gull

Tomaž Šalamun, trans. Brian Henry

Blockade

John Fiege