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  • Rae Gouirand
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In Wind: Blunt: Closer

  • Rae Gouirand
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Underlight

  • Aaron McCollough
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Underlight

  • Aaron McCollough
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Snow Globe With Frank O’Hara and Arboretum

  • Joni Wallace
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Entrance Liturgy

  • Dawn Marie Knopf

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Back When Post-War Vienna

  • Kyle Thompson
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Song of Solomon Transformed My Life

Dave Eggers interviews Junot Díaz

  • Junot Díaz
  • Dave Eggers
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Life Work

Nicholson Baker grows up

  • John Crowley
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Forage

  • Amelia Klein
Politics

Midterm Postmortem

 The Democrats suffered a historic defeat.

  • Eric McGhee
  • Brendan Nyhan
  • John Sides
Class & Inequality Politics

The Deficit Commission’s Parallel Universe

The failings of the Simpson-Bowles report

  • Dean Baker
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The Side of Love

In his poems and essays, Dan Chiasson proves equally adept at rigorous self-interrogation and at an intellectual probing of the outer world.

  • Piotr Florczyk
Class & Inequality Science

Can Technology End Poverty?

Many development experts promote information and communication technology (ICT) as a way to relieve global poverty. They should pay more attention to the human beings who use it.

  • Kentaro Toyama
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  • Nicholas Negroponte
  • Dean Karlan
  • Archon Fung
  • Evgeny Morozov
  • Ignacio Mas
  • Nathan Eagle
  • Jenny C. Aker
  • Christine Zhenwei Qiang

From the Editors: November/December 2010

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
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Urban Legends

It's time to rethink the concept of the "inner city."

  • William Rankin
Law

Sturdy Green Thread

Yearning for democracy in Iran

  • Sara Irani
Law

Iraq’s Lost Generation

The war’s human toll.

  • Nir Rosen
Law Politics

Acting Out

The question is not whether federal judges should strike down popularly enacted policies, but when.

  • Pamela S. Karlan
Law Politics Science

The Worst of the Worst

On supermax torture in America.

  • Lance Tapley
Philosophy Politics

Making Muslim Democracies

The history of Christian Democracy provides reasons for optimism and lessons for the future in Turkey. 

  • Jan-Werner Müller
Arts in Society Science

Books After Amazon

Amazon isn’t just bad for cities; it’s also bad for books.

  • Onnesha Roychoudhuri
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Suppose You’re an Idiot

Mark Twain tells his own story.

  • Roger Boylan
Politics

A Question of Character

  • David M. Kennedy
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