Marriage Won’t Cure Poverty
Philip N. Cohen
The Haifa Mob
Noam Chayut
The Good in Standardized Testing
Lelac Almagor
Overtaking
Sean Zhuraw
Do Ideas Matter?
Claude S. Fischer
Wonders
Anne Fausto-Sterling
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. Bloom replies.
Syria in Revolt
Sadik J. Al-Azm
Olfactory Cues
Martha Zweig
Any Further West
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Hart Crane in LA, 1927
Peter Balakian
A Cold Hand Draws the Covers Over the Moon
Larry Sawyer
God’s Country
Richard White
Reviewed:
The Heathen School
by John Demos. Knopf, 2014.
One Size Fits All and Then Some
Jeff Alessandrelli
Veer, Oscillate, Rest
Carrie Etter
Baby, Take a Bow
Judith Levine
Reviewed:
The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression
by John F. Kasson. W. W. Norton, 2014.
Rethinking Privacy
William H. Simon
Curio
Meghan Privitello
Poet’s Sampler
Amy King introduces Ocean Vuong
How To Give a Damn
Jo Ann Clark
Reviewed:
Under the Sign
by Ann Lauterbach. Penguin, 2013.
Epic Hour
Sherod Santos
Dear Friend,
Alan Gilbert
Reviewed:
Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters
ed. Claudia Moreno Pisano. University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley
ed. Rod Smith, Peter Baker, and Kaplan Harris. University of California Press, 2014.
Gedankenexperiment
Sean Bishop
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
X Marks the Dress: A Registry
by Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess. Gold Wake Press, 2013.
Peace
by Gillian Conoley. Omnidawn, 2014.
The Pedestrians
by Rachel Zucker. Wave Books, 2014.
Chord Box
by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers. University of Arkansas Press, 2013.
Submitting to Truth
Alan A. Stone
Celtic Star
Mariusz Smiejek