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Roads to Utopia

Inside Spain’s Model Village

  • Sarah Hill
Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: John Duvernoy

  • Timothy Liu
  • John Duvernoy
Arts in Society

Ghost Poet

An interview with the Korean poet Kim Kyung Ju.

  • Jake Levine
  • Kim Kyung Ju
Class & Inequality

7 Bipartisan Reasons to Raise the Minimum Wage

It's only fair, and other reasons why voters on all sides should agree.

  • Mike Konczal
Class & Inequality

How Finance Gutted Manufacturing

Since the 1980s, financial market pressures have driven companies to hive off activities that sustained manufacturing.

  • Suzanne Berger
with responses from
  • Dean Baker
  • Dan Luria & Joel Rogers
  • Dan Breznitz
  • Gary Herrigel
  • Susan N. Houseman
  • Mike Rose
  • Nichola Lowe
  • J. Phillip Thompson
  • Catherine Tumber
  • David Weil
Arts in Society

Poems on Surveillance

We invited poets to contribute new works, entering into a larger dialogue on what it means to have open eyes and ears in the twenty-first century. Poems by Armantrout, Ashbery, Bernstein, Pinsky, and others.

  • Andrew Ridker
with responses from
  • Cathy Park Hong
  • John Ashbery
  • Robert Pinsky
  • Charles Bernstein
  • Harmony Holiday
  • Rae Armantrout
  • Noelle Kocot
  • Richard Greenfield
  • Amy King
  • Jennifer Kronovet
  • Jessica Baran
  • Maureen N. McLane

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From the Editors: March/April 2014

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
Arts in Society

Microreview: Brenda Shaughnessy, Our Andromeda

  • Hilary Vaughn Dobel
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Loser

Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis.

  • Alan A. Stone
Arts in Society

Sonnet for My Son

  • Henk Rossouw
Class & Inequality Politics

Why the Success of the Rest is Good for America

Charles Kenny's The Upside of Down.

  • Ali Wyne
Arts in Society

Microreview: Adam Fitzgerald, The Late Parade

A rowdy, erudite debut collection.

  • Julian B. Gewirtz
Arts in Society Philosophy

Does Reading Literature Make You More Moral?

Literature helps shape what we consider to be moral in the first place.

  • Paula M.L. Moya
Politics

Risk-Sharing

Early Americans well understood that life and making a living were precarious.

  • Claude S. Fischer
Arts in Society

Palisades Kepler

  • Mary Margaret Alvarado
Arts in Society

Inclusivity Blueprint

  • Kit Schluter
Arts in Society

Microreview: Amy King, I Want to Make You Safe

Poems on personal and political insecurity.

  • Tim Wood
Arts in Society

Political Hatred in Argentina

Guardian journalist Uki Goñi discusses his career reporting from Buenos Aires.

  • Jessica Sequeira
Class & Inequality

Trench Democracy in Schools #2: An Interview with Helen Beattie

Deepening student engagement through collaborative action.

  • Albert W. Dzur
Arts in Society

Microreview: Martha Ronk, Transfer of Qualities

Part museum study, part lyric essay.

  • Benjamin Landry
Arts in Society

Seascape

My girlfriend has a third eye. It’s in the middle of her forehead. It was hidden underneath her bangs.

  • Holly Pekowsky
Arts in Society

Wolf Cento

  • Simone Muench
Class & Inequality

The Landscape of Campaign Finance Reform

Lawrence Lessig walked across New Hampshire to put campaign finance reform back on the national agenda.

  • Andrew Mayersohn
Arts in Society

Lyric Backlash

Thoughts on the Oulipo and César Vallejo in response to Calvin Bedient.

  • Rachel Galvin
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