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  • Stephen Ratcliffe
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Searching for Anne’s Grave

(from Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse)

  • David Trinidad
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Sonnet

  • Karen Volkman
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Sonnet

  • Karen Volkman
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The Debtor in the Convex Mirror

Winner of the Sixth Annual Boston Review Poetry Contest

  • Susan Wheeler
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*true confessions*

A short story. 

  • Vivian Chin

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Law Philosophy

Why We’re So Tough on Crime

The widening divide between America and Europe.

  • Carol S. Steiker
Science

Grave New World

Review: Staying Human in an Engineered Age .

  • George Scialabba
Science

Our Technologies, Ourselves

Review: The Past and Future of Body Technology.

  • Carl Elliott
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Buona Sera, Social Clubs?

Three collections of Italian American writing.

  • Alane S. Mason
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Another Country

Writing The Book of Hard Things.

  • Sue Halpern
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Two White Americans

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

  • Paul Killebrew
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Say Goodbye to Everything

Blue Hour by Carolyn Forché.

  • John Palattella
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Back to Jarrell

Stephen Burt 's Randall Jarrell and His Age. 
 

  • Jacques Khalip
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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.

  • Alan A. Stone

Letters

Politics

Exit Strategy

In 1963, JFK ordered a complete withdrawal from Vietnam.

  • James K. Galbraith
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.

  • Elaine Scarry
Gender & Sexuality Politics

Just Marriage

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

  • Mary Lyndon Shanley
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The Flame Tree of Freedom: Poetry and Apartheid

  • Peter Anderson

Letters

Summer 2003

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Cheap Shots

Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine.

  • Alan A. Stone
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Time

  • Nikolai Zabolotsky
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