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Sea Horse

  • Aleš Šteger
  • Brian Henry
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Ruined Interior

  • Suzanne Buffam
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Home, Away

  • Margaret Monaghan
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Pig’s Heaven Inn

  • Arthur Sze
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in the dark I stare through your cream gauze drape and hope for your shape to pass

  • Tom Bourguignon
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Chernobyl

  • Emily Fragos

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Poet’s Sampler: Patrick Moran

Introduced by D.A. Powell

  • Patrick Moran
  • D. A. Powell
Science

The Rising Tide

Time to adapt to climate change.

  • Michael D. Mastrandrea
  • Stephen H. Schneider
Politics

State of the Nation: Disapproval and Trust

How Americans view their government.

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
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SPIT AND IMAGE

New poetry from Ashley Capps.

  • Ashley Capps
Arts in Society Class & Inequality Science

Every Last Drop

Managing our way out of the water crisis.

  • Frank R. Rijsberman
Class & Inequality Science

Our Daily Bread

Without public investment, the food crisis will only get worse.

  • Rosamond Naylor
  • Walter Falcon
Law Politics

Presidential Crimes

The crimes of the Bush administration must be addressed through legal instruments, not simply through the electoral repudiation of bad policy.

  • Elaine Scarry
Politics

The Party’s Over

Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam attempt to provide a blueprint to save Republican politics from wholesale collapse.

  • Lew Daly
Law Politics

History Matters

Why we must acknowledge the claims of the Palestinians

  • Joseph Levine
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Wordwatching

A short story. 

  • Gay James
Politics

Intimate Revenge: Writing the Troubles

The Big Man of Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley, has died.

  • Roger Boylan
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The End of Sexual Identity

Fiction’s new terrain.

  • Stacey D’Erasmo
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Working Wonders

Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven.

  • Alan A. Stone
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Poets and the People

Reflections on solidarity during wartime.

  • Robert von Hallberg
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Out of Defeat

Aimé Césaire’s miraculous words.

  • Colin Dayan
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The Crucified Hand

Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart.

  • Raymond McDaniel
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Microreview: Peter Waldor, Door to a Noisy Room

Lyrical meditations on familial love, religious tales, and morality.

  • Nicholas Harp
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Microreview: Janet McAdams, Feral

Poems that deal smartly with questions of what we lose by learning.

  • Sean Norton
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