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You Are at Home Here

  • Tomaž Šalamun
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Let’s

  • Martha Zweig
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Overturn

for Philip

  • Martha Zweig
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The Lieutenant, Returned

  • Iain Haley Pollock
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Tradition, With Industry

  • Geoff Bouvier
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Conifers

  • Mark Bibbins

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The Drawing

  • Sabrina Orah Mark
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Letter from the Boreal Hermitess

  • Jennifer Chang
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Poet’s Sampler: Cyrus Console

  • Cyrus Console
  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien
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Microreview: Paisley Rekdal, The Invention of the Kaleidoscope

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

  • Victoria Chang
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Microreview: Matthew Zapruder, The Pajamaist

Poems presented as objects of contemplation.

  • Kathleen Rooney
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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.

  • Aaron Belz
Politics

Pious Populist

Understanding the rise of Iran’s president.

  • Abbas Milani
Gender & Sexuality

Half a Man

Gender apartheid in Iran.

  • Akbar Ganji
Politics

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

On the troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.

  • William Hogeland
Law Philosophy Politics

Words Behind Bars

Do prisoners have a right to read what they want?

  • Colin Dayan
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Left Behind

Romanticizing Germany's Urban Guerillas

  • Paul Hockenos
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A Baby Is a Baby Is a Baby

A short story.

  • Matthew Stuart
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The Cynic

A short story. 

  • Charles Johnson
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Something for Myself

Haruki Murakami’s strange world of hope.

  • Catalina Holguín
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Making Monsters

In the Valley of Elah, directed by Paul Haggis.

  • Alan A. Stone
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His Face in the Mirror

On the poetry of Zbigniew Herbert.

  • W. Martin
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The Testament of Mr. Cogito

Zbigniew Herbert and the limits of the political.

  • Alissa Valles
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Enlivened Parties

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

  • Reginald Shepherd
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