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Let’s

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Overturn

for Philip

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The Lieutenant, Returned

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Tradition, With Industry

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Conifers

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The Drawing

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Letter from the Boreal Hermitess

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Poet’s Sampler: Cyrus Console

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Microreview: Paisley Rekdal, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope

Brilliantly-made poems that are complicated, constantly in flux, and fragmented.

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Microreview: Matthew Zapruder, The Pajamaist

Poems presented as objects of contemplation.

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Microreview: Jaime Saenz, The Night

The Night redefines what it means to be illuminated by anatomizing the experience of being enveloped in darkness.

Politics

Pious Populist

Understanding the rise of Iran’s president.

Gender & Sexuality

Half a Man

Gender apartheid in Iran.

Politics

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

On the troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.

Law Philosophy Politics

Words Behind Bars

Do prisoners have a right to read what they want?

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Left Behind

Romanticizing Germany's Urban Guerillas

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A Baby Is a Baby Is a Baby

A short story.

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The Cynic

A short story. 

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Something for Myself

Haruki Murakami’s strange world of hope.

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Making Monsters

In the Valley of Elah, directed by Paul Haggis.

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His Face in the Mirror

On the poetry of Zbigniew Herbert.

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The Testament of Mr. Cogito

Zbigniew Herbert and the limits of the political.

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Enlivened Parties

Two new collections from Joanna Klink and Geoffrey G. O'Brien.

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