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Poet’s Sampler: John W. Evans

Introduced by Campbell McGrath

  • John W. Evans
  • Campbell McGrath
Class & Inequality Science

What Makes a Miracle

Some myths about the rise of China and India.

  • Pranab Bardhan
Politics

State of the Nation: Voters and Parties

The impact of the Iraq war on republican voting preferences. 

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
Science

Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It

How to meet the security threat.

  • Jonathan Zittrain
with responses from
  • Bruce M. Owen
  • Susan Crawford
  • Roger A. Grimes
  • Richard M. Stallman
  • David D. Clark
  • Hal Varian
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The Cure

David Cronenberg’s new film, A Dangerous Method.

  • Alan A. Stone
Philosophy

The Best of All Games

Philosopher John Rawls on the delights of baseball.

  • John Rawls

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Arts in Society Class & Inequality

On Borrowed Time

Urban decline moves to the suburbs

  • Michael Gecan
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The Last Time I Saw Junior

A short story. 

  • Dagoberto Gilb
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The Monarch of All

The fantasy world of John Cowper Powys.

  • Roger Boylan
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For Love and Money

A review of A Free Life, by Ha Jin.

  • Mythili G. Rao
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No Redemption

Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood Paramount Vantage (2007)

  • Alan A. Stone
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The Speed of Life

Lilies Without by Laura Kasischke.

  • Stephanie Burt
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Seeing Voices

On Hannah Weiner’s Open House.

  • Joyelle McSweeney
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The Truth of Things

Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005 by Robert Hass.

  • Katie Peterson
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Microreview: Rachel Wetzsteon, Sakura Park

As much an ode to the city as it is a documentation of love and loss.

  • Amy Newlove Schroeder
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Microreview: Standing in Line for the Beast, Pain Fantasy

Two collections from Jason Bredle.

  • Charlie Clark
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Microreview: Brian Kim Stefans, Kluge

Poems that read like a handbook for the future avant-garde.

  • Noah Eli Gordon
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Microreview: Susan Hutton, On the Vanishing of Large Creatures

This debut collection focuses on the fundamental question of history: What part of now will be remembered later?

  • Matthew Thorburn
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down salute

  • Raymond McDaniel
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onyx arcadia

  • Raymond McDaniel
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Contact

  • Linnea Ogden
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About Marriage

  • Elisa Gabbert
  • Kathleen Rooney
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Poem; or, The Artifacts

  • Dan Beachy-Quick
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Bill Brandt

  • Gerard Malanga
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