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Arts in Society

Microreview: Susan Briante, Pioneers in the Study of Motion

“Unstable love, detached love, underperforming love, neo-liberal love.”

  • Simon DeDeo
Arts in Society Class & Inequality

The City Visible

Chicago Poetry for the New Century

  • Fred Muratori
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Microreview: Cole Swenson, The Glass Age

Poems that sit alongside Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze.

  • Celia Bland
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Microreview: Christine Garren, The Piercing

Unflinchingly severe poems.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher
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Microreview: James Longenbach, Draft of a Letter

Poems that balance verbal paucity with connotative richness.

  • Jennifer Chang
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Variants on Binding

  • Stephanie Anderson

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Red Glass Necklace

  • John Spaulding
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The Whole False History of Human Beings

  • Arthur Vogelsang
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A Skeleton I Made From Skeletons I Found

  • Scott Topper
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The Ghost Back Home

  • Fred Muratori
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The Old Bills

  • John Updike
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please advise stop, I

  • Rusty Morrison
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please advise stop, II

  • Rusty Morrison
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Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

  • Kevin Young
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Poet’s Sampler: Matthew Dickman

  • Matthew Dickman
  • Major Jackson
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Tenth Annual Poetry Contest Winner

  • Elizabeth Willis
  • Susan Stewart
Arts in Society

Review: Radiant Lyre

: Essays on Lyric Poetry

  • Tess Taylor
Class & Inequality Law Race

Within Reach of the State

Though both the victims and perpetrators of human rights violations on African soil have been Africans, the pursuit of justice has been conducted largely by international institutions.

  • Owen Fiss
Law Politics

Massive crimes are never simply domestic

They cross borders and affect other states.

  • Luis Moreno-Ocampo
Law Race

The Slave Trade on Trial

Lessons of a great human rights–law success.

  • Jenny S. Martinez
Law Politics

No Going Back

Little relief in sight for millions of displaced Iraqis.

  • Nir Rosen
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The Art of Dying

A short story.

  • K.J. Bishop
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Lastingness

How growing old shapes aesthetic vision.

  • Nicholas Delbanco
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Unbeatable Odds

On Rescue Dawn, directed by Werner Herzog.

  • Alan A. Stone
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