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Microreview: David Sofield, Light Disguise

  • Dan Chiasson
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The Premises of Grass

  • Eugene Ostashevsky
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Losing Faith

The Democrats called, but they didn’t call back.

  • Ari Lipman
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Robert Capa’s Hope

The photographer wanted to show what freedom, and the people who made it, looked like.

  • Susie Linfield
Philosophy

Is Snow White?

And other questions about appearance and reality.

  • Alex Byrne
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The Mark of Exile

An excerpt from The Cigar Roller. 

  • Pablo Medina

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Microreview: Hank Lazer, Elegies & Vacations

  • Joshua Corey
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The Origin of the Specious

  • Eugene Ostashevsky
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RSVP

  • Debora Kuan
Science

Creator and Destroyer

The rivalry between J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller was a rivalry to end the world.

  • Vivian Gornick
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Underground Mausoleum

  • Kevin Prufer
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Testament

  • Gustaf Sobin
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Hizbullah’s New Face

In search of a Muslim democracy.

  • Helena Cobban
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Microreview: Rae Armantrout, Up to Speed

  • Jeffrey Jullich
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Microreview: Peter Streckfus, The Cuckoo

  • Garth Greenwell
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Civic Pride

  • Sarah Manguso

Truth in Numbers

Moral values and the gay-marriage backlash did not help Bush

  • Stephen Ansolabehere
  • Charles Stewart III
Law

In the National Interest

A grand new strategy for American foreign policy.

  • Stephen M. Walt
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  • Richard Falk
  • Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
  • Ervand Abrahamian
  • Khalil Shikaki
  • Naomi Chazan
  • Robert Vickers Jr.
  • Mahmood Mamdani
  • John Tirman
  • Ivo Daalder & James Lindsay
  • Mary Kaldor
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter
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Sunday Afternoon

  • Stephen Berg
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Cloud of Witnesses

  • G.C. Waldrep
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Corridor

  • Honor Moore
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Disparu

  • Honor Moore
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No Dream

  • James Longenbach
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Love Poem

  • Danielle Pieratti
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