Forum
Anxieties of Democracy
IRA KATZNELSON DEBATES
LARRY KRAMER, HÉLÈNE LANDEMORE, DAVID M. KENNEDY, MICHAEL GECAN, MARK SCHMITT, MARTIN O’NEILL, RICK PERLSTEIN, NADIA URBINATI, MOHAMMAD FADEL, MELISSA S. WILLIAMS, MICHAEL C. DAWSON, ALEX GOUREVITCH, AND RICHARD TRUMKA.
Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen
Foundations
Dispatch: Sandy Speaks
Debbie Nathan
Made in America: Just Deserts
Claude Fischer
Wonders: CRISPR: The Latest Biotech Hype
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Perspective: The Eternal Return of the Christian Nation
Richard White
Fiction
Cheapest Solutions
Dini Parayitam
Books & Ideas
The Passion of Ellen Willis
Judith Levine
Finding Your Way Home: Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor’s Retrieving Realism
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Half a Loaf: In Israel and Palestine, Two States Are Still Better Than One
Assaf Sharon
Hail to the Pencil Pusher: American Bureaucracy’s Long and Useful History
Mike Konczal
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Max Ritvo introduced by Lucie Brock-Broido
John Clare’s Heirs: The Enduring Reach of a Rural Poet
Stephen Burt
Little Gods: Fanny Howe’s Second Childhood
Heather Treseler
Microreviews
Anny Boyer, Ross Gay, and more.
Poems
Reading to My Father
Jorie Graham
Those Absurd Notes
Cecilia Vicuña, translated by Rosa Alcalá
Barnum and Bosch (2)
John Yau
Linnaeus Town
Anne Carson
End Credits (Friends)
D. A. Powell
Agave
Primo Levi, translated by Jonathan Galassi
What Kind
Maggie Nelson