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Arts in Society

Microreview: Lucy Ives, Orange Roses

A poetic coming-of-age narrative.

  • Katy Lederer
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Frank Lima, 1939–2013

Is there any more hopeful and heartening life story in American poetry than that of Frank Lima?

  • Nico Alvarado
Arts in Society

Orbit

  • Alice Miller
Class & Inequality

CEO Jackpot

We assume executives are paid to perform. But what are they really compensated for?

  • Sam Pizzigati
Arts in Society

Thought Cumulus,

  • Alfred Corn
Class & Inequality

Dr. Pangloss, Economist

There are great improvements in human welfare yet to be made, especially for the less powerful, over the seemingly optimal arrangements of today.

  • Claude S. Fischer

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Hilton Als’s Lonely Black Man

What happens when identity returns to crumble our defenses.

  • Tobi Haslett
Arts in Society

The dead inscribed, alphabetical, within

  • Susan Stewart
Class & Inequality

Trench Democracy in Public Administration #2: Interview with Andrea Arnold

Decatur, Georgia: a town where citizen participation plays a significant role in the daily life of government.

  • Albert W. Dzur
Arts in Society

My Mother Reading in the Land of the Dead

  • Joe Weil
Arts in Society

A World in Flames

Brenda Hillman's Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire

  • Dana Levin
Arts in Society

Microreview: Sarah Vap, End of the Sentimental Journey

A mystery poem.

  • Clare Emily Clifford
Politics

What Journalism Can and Can’t Do for Politics

The most consequential and controversial questions in politics are not amenable to fact-checking.

  • Andrew Mayersohn
Arts in Society

Dark, Understated Romantic Comedies

  • Chris Hosea
Arts in Society

Herta Müller’s Language of Resistance

Totalitarianism’s linguistic aggression.

  • Costica Bradatan
Arts in Society

The Big Dig

Steven Moore's The Novel: An Alternative History (1600-1800)

  • Roger Boylan
Arts in Society

Satisfaction of the Instincts

  • Eric Linsker
Arts in Society

By the Way

  • C. Dale Young
Arts in Society

Microreview: Eleni Sikelianos, The Loving Detail of the Living & the Dead

Collage poetics, scientific idiom, and exploration of the poem as essay.

  • Carol Moldaw
Politics

The Conscience of Syria

An interview with activist and intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh.

  • Yassin al-Haj Saleh
  • Danny Postel
  • Nader Hashemi
Class & Inequality Politics Race

Tiger Couple Gets It Wrong on Immigrant Success

High-earning immigrants often come from highly educated or affluent families to begin with.

  • Stephen Steinberg
Arts in Society

The Ache the Ache

  • Julia Cohen
Arts in Society

A Note on Rae Armantrout

Who is this poet channeling?

  • Ilya Kaminsky
Arts in Society

Microreview: Lyn Hejinian, My Life and My Life in the Nineties

Experiencing a classic anew.

  • Tim Wood
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