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Dream Job

  • Matthew Zapruder
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Early

  • Mark Levine
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Tu Fu Watches the Spring Festival Across Serpentine Lake

  • Frank Bidart
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A laborious wakefulness or was it a most unapologetic whistling in the ear

  • Shane Book
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Fifteen Minutes

  • Ben Doyle
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Poet’s Sampler: F. Daniel Rzicznek

Introduced by Larissa Szporluk

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Law Philosophy

The Citizens of Porto Alegre

Participatory budgeting has become a school of democracy in Brazil.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Politics

The Nation in a Room

Turning public opinion into policy.

  • James S. Fishkin
Philosophy Politics

Learning from Athens

Success by design.

  • Josiah Ober
Philosophy Politics

Ending Polarization

The good news about the culture wars

  • John Gastil
  • Dan M. Kahan
  • Donald Braman
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To Classes

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien
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Review: Like Wind Loves a Window

By Andrea Baker.

  • Stefania Heim
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Review: The Descent

By Sophie Cabot Black.

  • Robert Schnall
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Review: Donald Revell, Pennyweight Windows.

Poems that mine solitary landscapes and mindscapes.

  • Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
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Review: Dunya Mikhail, The War Works Hard

The first translation of poems by a female Iraqi poet to be published in the United States.

  • Susan Barba
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Review: And Then Something Happened

Poems that point outwards toward realities beyond the poem.

  • Heidi Lynn Staples
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Grass Psalm

  • Aleš Debeljak
  • Andrew Zawacki
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Helpmate

  • Nick Admussen
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Writing on White Air

Three new poetry books.

  • Jennifer Grotz
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Ian McEwan’s Family Values

 A once-in-a-generation writer.

  • Roger Boylan
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Unnecessary Noise Prohibited

  • C. Durning Carroll
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In the Scanner

  • Robley Evans
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Trapped

Nine Lives directed by Rodrigo García.

  • Alan A. Stone
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Keeping Company

  • Geoffrey G. O’Brien
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