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Searching for Anne’s Grave

(from Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse)

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Sonnet

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Sonnet

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The Debtor in the Convex Mirror

Winner of the Sixth Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest

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*true confessions*

A short story. 

Law Philosophy

Why We’re So Tough on Crime

The widening divide between America and Europe.

Science

Grave New World

Review: Staying Human in an Engineered Age .

Science

Our Technologies, Ourselves

Review: The Past and Future of Body Technology.

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Buona Sera, Social Clubs?

Three collections of Italian American writing.

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Another Country

Writing The Book of Hard Things.

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Two White Americans

Poetry that looks at the acidic and the absurd in American culture.

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Say Goodbye to Everything

Blue Hour by Carolyn Forché.

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Back to Jarrell

Stephen Burt 's Randall Jarrell and His Age. 
 

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Microreviews: Oct/Nov 2003

Eight new collections of poetry.

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Realism’s Redemption

Sweet Sixteen and Raising Victor Vargas.

Letters

Politics

Exit Strategy

In 1963, JFK ordered a complete withdrawal from Vietnam.

Law

Transparent Citizens, Invisible Government

The double requirement of the Constitution—that people’s lives be private and government actions be public—is turned inside out by the Patriot Act.

Gender & Sexuality Politics

Just Marriage

American conservatives pride themselves on moral clarity—and nowhere greater than on the topic of marriage and family.

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The Flame Tree of Freedom: Poetry and Apartheid

Letters

Summer 2003

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Cheap Shots

Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine.

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Time

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