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All About Her Mother

The Midnight by Susan Howe. 

  • John Palattella
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Simic’s Peregrinations

Reading The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems.

  • Benjamin Paloff
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Like Theseus through the Maze

The Soldiers of Year II by Medbh McGuckian. 

  • Jenny Ludwig
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Microreviews: December 2003/January 2004

Six new collections of poetry.

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Cougar

  • Sophie Cabot Black
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The Art of Autobiography

  • Devin Johnston

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Poet’s Sampler: Brett Fletcher Lauer

Introduced by Matthew Rohrer

  • Brett Fletcher Lauer
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Arrange Me, Mysterious Men

  • Ida McCall
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Seventeenth Series of the Static Logical Genesis

  • Paul Naylor
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Eighteenth Series of the Three Images of Philosophers

  • Paul Naylor
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Thou Hast Blessed the Work of His Hands

  • Bin Ramke
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Les Corbeaux

  • Arthur Rimbaud
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Tuesday Night

  • Sam White

Letters

December 2003/January 2004

Class & Inequality

What Makes Schools Work?

Why private-school tuition vouchers are not the answer.

  • Richard D. Kahlenberg
  • Bernard Wasow
with responses from
  • William A. Galston
  • Richard J. Murnane
  • Reg Weaver
  • Joseph P. Viteritti
  • Amy Hanauer
  • Deborah Meier
Law Politics

Dominance and Its Dilemmas

The Bush administration’s imperial grand strategy.

  • Noam Chomsky
Law

The Iraqi Shiites

On the history of America’s would-be allies.

  • Juan Cole
Class & Inequality Law

Shock and Awe Meets Market Shock

The dangerous mix of economic and military goals in Iraq

  • Duncan Kennedy
Philosophy

Tragedy and Justice

Bernard Williams remembered

  • Martha C. Nussbaum
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An Audit by the Patio

  • Michelle J. Boese
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Requiem

  • Angie Estes
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Poet’s Sampler: Josey Foo

Introduced by Arthur Sze

  • Josey Foo
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Like Cuttings for a Wreath of Praise and Ransom

  • Carl Phillips
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Mastery

  • Carl Phillips
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