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Contents

NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM
In the National Interest

A new grand strategy for American foreign policy    Stephen M. Walt

With Richard Falk, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Ervand Abrahamian, Khalil Shikaki, Naomi Chazan, Robert Vickers Jr., Mahmood Mamdani, John Tirman, Ivo Daalder, James Lindsay, Mary Kaldor, and Anne-Marie Slaughter

Response by Stephen M. Walt


ESSAYS
Hungry for Air
Learning the language of torture    Deborah Stone

The Blemish of Conquest
Moshe Dayan questioned American goals in Vietnam. What would he say about Iraq?    Martin van Creveld

The Good Empire
Should we pick up where the British left off?    Vivek Chibber

Cold War Casualties
How our claim of victory distorts American foreign policy    Neta C. Crawford

American Soup
Are we all Anglo-Protestants?    Claudio Lomnitz

Truth in Numbers
Moral values and the gay-marriage backlash did not help Bush    Stephen Ansolabehere and Charles Stewart III


NEW FICTION FORUM
My Good Man  FICTION    Eric Gansworth

New Jews from the Old Country
David Bezmosgis, Gary Shteyngart, and others    Val Vinokur

Longing for God
On writing Milk    Darcey Steinke

 

ON POETRY
Strange Relations
Jesse Ball's March Book, Spencer Reece's The Clerk's Tale, and Srikanth Reddy's Facts for Visitors    DeSales Harrison

An Unillusioned Life
Donald Justice's Collected Poems    Stephen Burt

The Ethics of Language
Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely    Alan Gilbert

Microreviews

 

ON FILM
For God and Country

Two versions of Henry V    Alan A. Stone

 

POEMS
Sunday Afternoon    Stephen Berg
Cloud of Witnesses    G.C. Waldrep
Corridor    Honor Moore
Disparu    Honor Moore
No Dream    James Longenbach
Love Poem    Danielle Pieratti
saints & or: notes in the form of sonnets (millay effects)    Michael Farrell
Poet's Sampler: Stacy Szymaszek    introduced by Lisa Jarnot

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR



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