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

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 Film

For God and Country

Two versions of Henry V
Alan A. Stone

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

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

Microreviews