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Contents

In Empire's Shadow

Time Out of Joint
Western dominance, Islamist terror, and the Arab imagination    Sadik J. Al-Azm

Tragedy in Darfur
On understanding and ending the horror    Alex de Waal

Iraq's Chaos
Why the insurgency won't go away    Ahmed S. Hashim

Manifesto
An argument for democracy in Taiwan    The Editors of Taiwan; translated by Theodore Huters


Essays

Cruel and Unusual    NOW A BOOK!
The end of the Eighth Amendment    Joan Dayan

 


Fiction

The Red Clock    Maile Chapman


Nonfiction Reviews

Necessary Truths
Scott Soames's Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century    Alex Byrne and Ned Hall

High Art in Low Times
David Caute's The Dancer Defects and Frances Stonor Saunders's The Cultural Cold War     Catherine Gunther Kodat


New Fiction Forum

The Happy Place
Walt Kelly's Pogo    John Crowley

The Devil and Henry Dumas
A lost voice of the Black Arts Movement    Scott Saul

American Legacy
On writing The Vagabonds    Nicholas Delbanco


Poetry Reviews

Not Your Father's Formalism
Marilyn Hacker's Desesperanto, Mimi Khalvati's The Chine, and Rosanna Warren's Departure      Rafael Campo

Streaming Poetry
Tan Lin's BlipSoak01    Brian Kim Stefans

Harder to See
Craig Dworkin's Reading the Illegible    Jacques Khalip

Poetry Microreviews


On Film

Lawless
Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education    Alan A. Stone


Poetry

Port Sunlight     Allen Grossman
The Last Modernist    Susan M. Schultz
The Untraumatized Man    Susan M. Schultz
Shipfitters    Allen Grossman
The Revenge of the Bathwater (Earl Version)    Bob Perelman
Prologue    Rusty Morrison
Poet's Sampler: Molly Dorozenski    Dara Wier
Poetry-Contest Winner: Michael Tod Edgerton    Cole Swensen


Letters to the Editor



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