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The Cloud Corporation, Part 2

An Interview 

  • Timothy Donnelly
  • Maureen N. McLane
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Biography of Sleep

Translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry

  • Aleš Debeljak
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The Perspective Fairy

  • Mark Bibbins
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Budgetary Hemlock

Nevada Seeks to Eliminate Philosophy

  • Todd Edwin Jones
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Palling Around

  • Gregory Pardlo
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Saint Days

  • Angie Mlinko

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Arts in Society

The Cloud Corporation, Part 1

An Interview

  • Timothy Donnelly
  • Maureen N. McLane
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Majestic Interlude

  • Brett Fletcher Lauer
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A Storm

  • Laura Kasischke
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Prose, Thinly Disguised as an IKEA Superstore

The poetic shows up in more places than we think.

  • Vincent Czyz

The Anatomy of Influence

An interview with Harold Bloom.

  • Adam Fitzgerald
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At Least

  • Rae Armantrout
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The “Illth” of Nations

Enlarging our sense of the economy.

  • David Bollier
  • Jonathan Rowe
Class & Inequality Politics

Protective Bargaining

How to Prevent the Labor Wars

  • Thomas A. Kochan
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Heroisms

  • Dan Beachy-Quick
  • Timothy Donnelly
Law

Small Changes, Big Results

Behavioral Economics at Work in Poor Countries

  • Rachel Glennerster
  • Michael Kremer
with responses from
  • Diane Coyle
  • Eran Bendavid
  • Pranab Bardhan
  • José Gómez-Márquez
  • Chloe O’Gara
  • Jishnu Das & Shantayanan Devarajan & Jeffrey S. Hammer
  • Daniel N. Posner
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Floating World

If a travelogue were to arrive as writing, it might read like Maureen N. McLane’s two full-length collections of poems, Same Life and World Enough.

  • Tess Taylor
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Hello Kitty

“Gurlesque poets,” Glenum writes, “put the unabashed quest for female pleasure at the center of their poetics.”

  • BK Fischer
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Synecdoche

Kathleen Graber’s, The Eternal City, 

  • Megan Levad
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Microreview: Edip Cansever, Dirty August

The first English-language translation of the Turkish poet.

  • Elizabeth Gramm
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Microreview: Christian Wiman, Every Riven Thing

Poems where God is a constant presence. 

  • Kate Middleton
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Microreview: Samuel Amadon, Like a Sea

Poems that present a world refracted through distracted consciousness.

  • Marina Read Weiss
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Microreview: David Morley, Enchantment

The interests of a naturalist combined with Romani heritage.

  • Paul Franz
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Microreview: Anthony McCann, I ♥ Your Fate

Poems whose  nabashed romanticism and faith in simple lyricism remain powerful. 

  • Nate Pritts
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