Forum
Against Empathy
Paul Bloom — with responses from:
LESLIE JAMISON, PETER SINGER, LEONARDO CHRISTOV-MOORE AND MARCO IACOBONI, JACK W. BERRY AND LYNN E. O’CONNOR, BARBARA H. FRIED, SIMON BARON-COHEN, MARIANNE LAFRANCE, ELIZABETH STOKER BRUENIG, NOMY ARPALY, SAM HARRIS, CHRISTINE MONTROSS, AND JESSE PRINZ.
Editors’ Note
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
State of the Nation: Marriage Won’t Cure Poverty
Philip N. Cohen
Made in America: Do Ideas Matter?
Claude S. Fischer
Wonders: The Evidence of Memory
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Context
Syria in Revolt: Understanding the Unthinkable War<
Sadik J. al-Azm
Fiction
Any Further West
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Books & Ideas
God’s Country: John Demos’s The Heathen School
Richard White
Baby, Take a Bow: Shirley Temple and the Myth of Childhood Innocence<
Judith Levine
Rethinking Privacy
William H. Simon
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Ocean Vuong introduced by Amy King
How to Give a Damn: Ann Lauterbach’s Under the Sign
Jo Ann Clark
Dear Friend: The Letters of Amiri Baraka, Robert Creeley, and Ed Dorn
Alan Gilbert
Microreviews
On Film
Submitting to Truth: Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida
Alan A. Stone
Poems
Overtaking
Sean Zhuraw
Olfactory Cues
Martha Zweig
Hart Crane in LA, 1927
Peter Balakian
A Cold Hand Draws the Covers Over the Moon
Larry Sawyer
One Size Fits All and Then Some
Jeff Alessandrelli
Veer, Oscillate, Rest
Carrie Etter
Curio
Meghan Privitello
