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Accumulative

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Poet’s Sampler: Greg Wrenn

Introduced by D. A. Powell

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Credo

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Twenty-first Century Woolf

On The Hours, directed by Stephen Daldry. 

Letters

April/May 2003

Law Politics

A Warning from History

Don’t expect democracy in Iraq.

Law

Waiting for War in Damascus

Syria has been opening up. A war will shut it down.

Nationalism’s Mired Hopes

Partition, Cold War, and the conflict in Kashmir.

Law

The Best Defense

The problem with Bush’s “preemptive” war doctrine.

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Skirting the Issue

French literature is out of touch with social realities.

Maxwell’s Lives

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Poet’s Sampler: Aaron Kunin

Introduced by Peter Gizzi

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Imaginary Places

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As One

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La Musica Nova

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Hall of Records

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A Man, His Dog, and Some Fish: An Aubade

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Portrait

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Poem

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Prothalamion [I]

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Prothalamion [II]

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Sweet

A short story. 

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She Began

A short story. 

Law Politics

The Politics of Rescue

Debating humanitarian intervention.

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