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Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah-Nyah

With Frederick Seidel, some readers will recoil. Others will be seduced by a voice that finds its power in accumulated detail.

  • Celia Bland
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Fault Lines

Ben Lerner’s Angle of Yaw and Sarah Manguso’s Siste Viator.

  • Craig Morgan Teicher
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Capital Truths

A review of Giles Goodland's new collection.

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien
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Microreview: Henri Cole, Blackbird and Wolf

A collection of free sonnets.

  • Charlie Clark
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Microreview: Aaron Belz, The Bird Hoverer

Impressive, loopy poems.

  • Tony Trigilio
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Microreview: Inger Christensen, it

A collection something like a 237-page logic puzzle.

  • Rebecca Porte

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Microreview: Anna Rabinowitz, The Wanton Sublime

Poems that attempt to define and redefine the Virgin Mary.

  • Rob Schlegel
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Your Worship

  • Val Vinokur
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Worse

  • Mary Jo Bang
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The Essence

  • Mary Jo Bang
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Appendix

  • Edip Cansever
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My Life in the Tubes of Survival

  • Roberto Bolaño
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Evening Apparition

  • James McCorkle
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Poet’s Sampler: Matt Shears

  • Matt Shears
  • Claudia Keelan
Class & Inequality Law Race

Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?

Race and the transformation of criminal justice

  • Glenn C. Loury
Law Politics

Back to the Future

On Israel’s existential crisis.

  • Robert Blecher
  • Jeremy Pressman
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The Curse of Modernity

Philip Rieff’s problem with freedom.

  • George Scialabba
Law Philosophy

In the Sweep of History

Where realists and progressives can meet.

  • Anatol Lieven
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Lucho

A short story.

  • Patricia Engel
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Whole Sight

On artistic passion.

  • Charles Johnson
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Brazil’s Dreamer

The disenchantment and re-enchantment of Chico Buarque.

  • Scott Saul
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Nabokov’s Gift

A writer's legacy.

  • Roger Boylan
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Found in Translation

On César Aira, Roberto Bolaño, and Hispanic-American writing.

  • Aura Estrada
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A Care in the World

Away From Her directed by Sarah Polley.

  • Alan A. Stone
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