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September/October 2006

Claudio Lomnitz on Latin America’s new left; Michael J. Piore and Andrew Schrank on the human costs of free markets; Mae Ngai on border control; Dalton Conley on Charles Murray and the end of the welfare state.

Susie Linfield on photography criticism; A short story from Yvonne Woon; poetry from Kate Hall and Hank Lazer.

Seeds of Change

a special section on democratic reform

Essays

The Treacherous Medium

Why photography critics hate photographs
Susie Linfield

Charles Murray’s New Plan

Ending the welfare state as we know it

Dalton Conley

Native Speaker

Sayed Kashua’s Dancing Arabs and Let It Be Morning

Laila Lalami

Fiction

On Film

On Poetry

Poet’s Sampler

Introduced by Matthew Zapruder

Kate Hall

The Brain’s Tent

Lynette Robert’s Collected Poems

John Wilkinson

Zoned

Joshua Clover’s The Totality for Kids

John Palattella

Microreviews

Fredrick Farryl Goodwin

Poems

Let my mother conquer me, let her

Jermey Valentine Freeman

The Footfalls of a Great Criminal

César Vallejo, translated by Clayton Eshleman

The Conflict Between the Eyes and the Gaze

César Vallejo, translated by Clayton Eshleman

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