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Poet’s Sampler: Jynne Dilling Martin

  • Jynne Dilling Martin
  • Matthea Harvey
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They Are Still Rather Lovely

  • John Ashbery
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He Does an Act with Colored Cards

  • Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle
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Cymbalta

  • Stephanie Cleveland
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Youth Is Not Absolution for Treachery; It Is a Morning Star of Some Kind

  • Travis Nichols
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Car Rolls Off Clay Wade Bailey Bridge

  • Erica Bernheim

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The Eden Archives

  • John Isles
Science

Can We Stop Global Warming?

There is a lot we don’t know about climate change, but what we do know should motivate us to action.

  • Kerry Emanuel
with responses from
  • Nicholas Stern
  • David G. Victor & Danny Cullenward
  • Kirsten Oleson & Chandra Shekhar Sinha
  • Jeffrey Logan & Joanna Lewis & Michael B. Cummings
  • Judy Layzer & William Moomaw
Law

Truth, Lies, and Accountability

In search of justice in East Timor.

  • Joseph Nevins
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The Beginning of Wisdom

Like many other writers of his time, H.G. Wells thought of himself as a Man of the Future, but his style of self-presentation remained Victorian.

  • Vivian Gornick
Class & Inequality Gender & Sexuality Politics Science

The Crucible

Sex Education in the United States.

  • Maureen N. McLane
Arts in Society Politics

Orientalism Revisited

Edward Said’s unfinished critique.

  • Lawrence Rosen
Arts in Society Politics

Inside Madrasa

A personal history.

  • Ebrahim Moosa
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Holyoke Mass., an Ethnography

A short story

  • Ivelisse Rodriguez
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The Quiet Man

John McGahern’s Ireland.

  • Roger Boylan
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Good Will

Stranger than Fiction is an unexpectedly delightful film that brings whimsy and grown-up humor back to the movies.

  • Alan A. Stone
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Last Laughs

The poems and fiction of Kenneth Koch.

  • Tanya Larkin
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Whole New World

On Alice Notley.

  • Brian Teare
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Bewitched

Harryette Mullen's Recyclopedia.

  • Joyelle McSweeney
Arts in Society

Review: biography of water

Poems experimental in form and timeless in rhythm and imagery.

  • Nadia Herman Colburn
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Review: Journey to the Lost City

By Jonathan Aaron.

  • Jana Prikryl
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Review: Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk

By Joshua Marie Wilkinson.

  • Kathleen Rooney
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Review: Quarantine

Poems that need to be experienced as a whole.

  • Zack Finch
Arts in Society

Review: Past Imperfect

By Suzanne Buffam.

  • Sandra Lim
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