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The Rising Tide
Time to adapt to climate change
Michael D. Mastrandrea and Stephen H. Schneider
Global warming and its impacts are already at hand. We face immediate choices about how to temper the worst consequences for vulnerable populations and regions.
The Mourner’s Hope
Grief and the foundations of justice
Martha Nussbaum
Before we can achieve global justice, we need to look beyond ourselves and our country to realize a reciprocal consolation that reaches across international and cultural divides.
Call of the Tribe
Identity in our politics and our lives
Glenn C. Loury
“There are times when the call of the tribe just might be a siren’s call and when an excessive focus on ‘identity’ could lead one badly astray.”
archive
Revolutionary Road
Richard Yates’ classic novel is now due for release as a motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. Stewart O’Nan's 1999 essay was key in reviving the author’s reputation.
Stewart O’Nan
essays
Constitutional Conventions
Public history should make us think.
William Hogeland
Not Free at Any Price
Why I switched to the OLPC, and why I dropped it
Richard M. Stallman
The Good Life
On The Measure of America
How are we really doing?
Claude S. Fischer
Presidential Crimes
Moving on is not an option
Elaine Scarry
History Matters
Why we must acknowledge the claims of the Palestinians
Joseph Levine
“They woke up in a rage.”
An interview with Vivian Gornick on Philip Roth, feminism, and her new book,
The Men In My Life.
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Outside the Big Box
Who speaks for today's small businesses?
Nicole D. Kazee, Michael Lipsky,
and Cathie Jo Martin
Response from the President of the National Small Business Association
Todd O. McCracken
Bolt from the Blue
The promise and problems of Obama’s faith-based plan
Lew Daly
The Gunslinger
John Bolton’s Surrender is Not an Option
Stephen J. Stedman
Fault Lines
Inside Rumsfeld’s Pentagon
Andrew J. Bacevich
From Theocracy to Democracy
Akbar Ganji’s hopes for Iran
Interviewed by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
poetry
Part II of Maureen McLane's reading from her recently published collection Same Life
Poets and the People
Reflections on solidarity during wartime
Robert von Hallberg
Out of Defeat
Aimé Césaire’s miraculous words
Colin Dayan
Poet’s Sampler: Ashley Capps
Introduced by Graham Foust
SPIT AND IMAGE
A Web-only special
Ashley Capps
Hwan’s Condition
James Shea
Exit Ovidian
Dean Young
The Mosquito Monocracy
Adam O. Davis
And I Do Desire Your Looking Back
’Annah Sobelman
It Never Goes Away
Sophie Cabot Black
Poet's Sampler: Patrick Moran
Introduced by D.A. Powell
Microreviews
Door to a Noisy Room
Feral
Tendril
The Forms of Youth: 20th-Century
Poetry and Adolescence
The Hot Garment of Love Is Insecure
fiction
Uproars: Leslie Epstein's Magic
John Crowley
Like Epstein's previous work, The Eighth Wonder of the World celebrates “the collision between organized human activity and an unstoppable impulse to chaos.”
Every Leaf, Every Tree
Neel Mukherjee
art by Tom Uglow
Bad News
Authenticity and the South Asian political novel
Amitava Kumar
Imagining the Enemy
A series of articles exploring fiction’s potential as a tool of social and political
analysis in today's complex world. Supported by a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts.
Wordwatching–story
“Some jog, breasts and buttocks jiggling. Some treadmill, some bicycle . . . M. does word exercises.”
Gay James
The End of Sexual Identity
The death and afterlife of the “gay novel”
Stacy D'Erasmo
Gone–story
“Mirabelle and I began collecting the names of the dead girls in December. . .”
Danielle Lazarin
What Does Woody Want?
Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Alan A. Stone
Meeting the Demand
Adapting to climate change
Every Last Drop
Frank R. Rijsberman
Our Daily Bread
Rosamond Naylor and Walter Falcon
After Prison
A special issue on incarcerated America
Reentry
Reversing mass imprisonment
Bruce Western
No Further Harm
Mary F. Katzenstein and Mary L. Shanley
Guarded Hope
Robert Perkinson
Is It Africa’s Turn?
Progress in the world’s poorest region
Edward Miguel
With responses by Robert Bates, Ken Banks, Olu Ajakaiye , Rosamond Naylor, David N. Weil, Jeremy M. Weinstein, Smita Singh, Paul Collier, and Rachel Glennerster; Miguel responds
Protecting the Internet Without Wrecking It
How to meet the security threat
Jonathan Zittrain
With responses by Bruce M. Owen, Richard Stallman, Susan Crawford, David D. Clark, Roger A. Grimes, and Hal Varian; Zittrain responds
See Zittrain’s appearance on The Colbert ReportEnding Urban Poverty
Introduction
What makes a troubled neighborhood?
Dalton Conley
The Inherited Ghetto
Patrick Sharkey
Neighborhood Matters
Stefanie DeLuca
Nukes, Democracy, and Iran
The View from Tehran
Akbar Ganji
Nuclear Freeze
Hans Blix
Carrots and Sticks
R. Nicholas Burns
A Third Way
Michael McFaul and Abbas Milani
