Essays

Cruel and Unusual

The end of the Eighth Amendment
Joan Dayan

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 Red Clock

Maile Chapman

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

On Film

Lawless

Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

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

Poems

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

Microreviews