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Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Adam Fitzgerald

Adam Fitzgerald was my student at Arts High in New Jersey in 2001.

  • Adam Fitzgerald
  • Joe Weil
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Poetry Changed the World

Injury and the ethics of reading.

  • Elaine Scarry
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Amen

Ariana Reines’s Erotic Soul

  • BK Fischer
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Microreviews: Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour

In her follow-up to Orchidelirium (2004), Deborah Landau explores a new relationship between the poet and the urban night.

  • Jay Deshpande
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Microreviews: Brandon Shimoda, O Bon

Brandon Shimoda’s O Bon charts the arc of abjection after the death of a grandfather.

  • Kristina Marie Darling
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Microreviews: Jeffrey Skinner, The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets

Jeffrey Skinner, author of five books of poems, has penned a hilarious yet moving “self-help memoir.”

  • Kelly Fordon

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Microreviews: Elizabeth Willis, Address

Poems unafraid to salute our democratic ideals. 

  • Noah Eli Gordon
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Microreviews: Harmony Holiday, Negro League Baseball

A personal and cultural history fit together first as hearing and then as seeing.

  • W. M. Lobko
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It Is the Perpetual Today

The pool is empty; no bathers stand nearby….

  • Virginia Konchan
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Essential Difference

Translated from the Greek by Cecile Inglessis Margellos and Rika Lesser

  • Kiki Dimoula
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Cash for Gold

Before you dashed with me through…

  • Ernest Hilbert
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To the White Woman on the Plane Who Doesn’t Understand My Discomfort When She Asks If She Can Touch My Hair

What will you do now…

  • Torrie Valentine
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After Paradise Lost

When the evil army comes it is accompanied…

  • Alison Powell
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Dewseaville

So much trouble/ floating in the air….

  • Daniel Tiffany
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Choosing Love

The Beat That My Heart Skipped by Jacques Audiard.

  • Alan A. Stone
Arts in Society Science

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Toward a Realistic World Heritage List

  • Andrew Blackwell
Law

‘Obamacare’ Is Constitutional, But …

Pam Karlan on the Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling

  • David V. Johnson
  • Pamela S. Karlan
Race

The Search for Decolonial Love: An Interview with Junot Díaz

  • Paula M.L. Moya
Class & Inequality

What to Do About Inequality

We need to do more than raise taxes on the rich. We have to correct the market failures in labor and education that generate it.

  • David B. Grusky
with responses from
  • Rick Perlstein
  • Mike Konczal
  • Shikha Dalmia
  • Ruy Teixeira
  • Thomas Piketty & Emmanuel Saez & Stefanie Stantcheva
  • Barbara R. Bergmann
  • Neal McCluskey
  • Susan E. Mayer
  • Anne L. Alstott
  • Glenn C. Loury
Philosophy Politics

How Markets Crowd Out Morals

There are some things money can’t buy—and many things money shouldn’t buy.

  • Michael J. Sandel
with responses from
  • Richard Sennett
  • Matt Welch
  • Anita L. Allen
  • Debra Satz
  • Herbert Gintis
  • Lew Daly
  • Samuel Bowles
  • Elizabeth Anderson
  • John Tomasi
Arts in Society

The Practice of Everyday Life

Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas

  • Christopher Schmidt
Class & Inequality Politics

A New Hamiltonianism

An Interview with Michael Lind

  • Michael Lind
  • John Stoehr
Philosophy Politics

The Salafi Question

Egypt’s Constitutional Moment

  • Amitai Etzioni
Arts in Society

American Counterworld

Remembering Ray Bradbury (1920–2012)

  • John Crowley
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