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Something from Nothing

U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.

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Squill

Class & Inequality Law

The Big Bank Theory

How government helps financial giants get richer

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The Jewish Question

Alan Stone reviews the Coen Brothers' A Serious Man.

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Smothered to Smithereens

The poetics of motherhood

Law

Counterinsurgency’s Comeback

Can a colonialist strategy be reinvented?

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Lord, Hear My Voice

Bin Ramke has a dedicated readership, but it is not a particularly large one. His work is probably too strange, too difficult, and too huddled around a particular vision of the self and the world to appeal to a broad audience.

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Nothing To Fear

Misreading Muslim immigration in Europe.

Politics

All Bark, No Bite

The Decline of Germany’s Social Democrats

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Microreview: Roberto Bolaño, The Romantic Dogs

Re-imagining the poet as detective and philosopher in one. 

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Review: Zero Readership

By Filip Marinovich.

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Review: Days of Unwilling

By Cal Bedient.

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Review: Skirmish

By Dobby Gibson.

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Review: Word Comix

By Charlie Smith.

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Poet’s Sampler: Christopher Kondrich

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Description of a Badly Drawn Horse

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Vault

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Idyll

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Prometheus

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My Herculaneum

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The Cake

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The Engineer of Vertical Frontiers

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Wednesday Nights

A memoir.

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Everything is Breakable with a Big Enough Stone

A short story.

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