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Standardized Testing Can be Good

But only if we put students first.

  • Lelac Almagor

Life After Theory

Ben Lerner's new novel, 10:04.

  • Anthony Domestico

From the Editors: September/October 2014

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Arts in Society

Microreview: Roger Reeves, King Me

Mouths, metaphor, and metonymy.

  • Virginia Konchan
Arts in Society

Let’s Be Real

Two books by Roxane Gay reflect on the state of feminism.

  • Lucy McKeon
Arts in Society

sweeping psalm

  • Christopher Janke

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Radical Feeling in the Poetry of World War I

Selections from war poets.

  • Len Gutkin
Politics

#Ferguson: Did Social Media Really Fan the Flames?

However vast the media apparatus may be, the disturbances have not spread.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society

Nameless Lake: Occupation and the Ear

The violence of the struggle over this place raises many questions that center around the power to speak.

  • Nick Admussen

An Interview with Tobias Wolff

  • Quyen Nguyen
  • Tobias Wolff
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Riverboat

  • Adam Fitzgerald
Science

The Flip Side of Individualism

How egoism can also lead to self-defeating self-blame.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society

Microreview: Kevin Young, Book of Hours

Tim Wood reviews Book of Hours, by Kevin Young.

  • Tim Wood
Philosophy

Against Empathy

Most people see the benefits of empathy as too obvious to require justification.

  • Paul Bloom
with responses from
  • Peter Singer
  • Leslie Jamison
  • Lynn E. O'Connor & Jack W. Berry
  • Leonardo Christov-Moore & Marco Iacoboni
  • Marianne LaFrance
  • Simon Baron-Cohen
  • Nomy Arpaly
  • Elizabeth Bruenig
  • Christine Montross
  • Sam Harris
  • Barbara H. Fried
  • Jesse Prinz
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Farm Hubbub

  • John Ashbery
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La Tlemcénienne

  • John Ashbery
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Submitting to Truth

Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida

  • Alan A. Stone
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Muted Protest

  • Tobi Haslett
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African Poets’ Sampler

  • Jennifer Franklin
Law Race

Six Shots in Michael Brown

The judicial process cannot account for what matters most: the policies and biases that enable white men to claim justification in the murder of black men.

  • Simon Waxman
Politics

Syria in Revolt

Understanding the unthinkable war.

  • Sadiq J. Al-Azm
Arts in Society

Agnus Dei: Mars

  • Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers
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“You have been here some time”: Poetics of Failure and Song

Epanorthosis and song might finally be thought together.

  • Lindsay Turner
Politics

“The Industry of Ideas”: Measuring the Impact of Think Tanks

Investigating money in politics is a little like studying dark matter.

  • Andrew Mayersohn
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