Contents

CROSSING THE BORDER
Reforming Immigration Policy
Start by protecting rights, not borders    Jacqueline Bhabha

American Sweatshops
Organizing workers in the global economy    Jennifer Gordon

On Belonging
What we owe people who stay    Joseph H. Carens

ESSAYS
The Power and the Glory
Myths of American exceptionalism    Howard Zinn

What We Know
On the universals of language and rights    Noam Chomsky

Fear No Freedom
The human-rights movement's dilemma    William F. Schulz

No Peace, No War
Have international donors failed Sri Lanka's most vulnerable?    Alan Keenan

NEW FICTION FORUM
Dreamoirs    Marian Marzynski

1952  FICTION    Ibarionex Perello

Seeing Things
Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black and Giving Up the Ghost    Stacey D'Erasmo

The Bottom of Madness
On writing You Don't Have to Live Here    Natasha Radojcic

ON POETRY
Poetry is Poetry
John Ashbery's Where Shall I Wander and Selected Prose    James Longenbach

Fever Dreams
Russell Edson's The Rooster's Wife    Nicholas Allen Harp

Microreviews

ON FILM
Mercy
Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby    Alan A. Stone

POEMS
Hearts in Which the Movements of Worlds Are Bound and Ruptured    Cal Bedient
"Note the Wreath of Hair at the Back of Her Head, Which Though Fastened by a Spiral Fillet, Escapes at Last, and Flies Off Loose in a Sweeping Curve"    Cal Bedient
Kansas in Verse    Joanne Straley
Memories of an Upward Sinking    Soyoung Jung
Moment of Self Reflection    Soyoung Jung
[lampshades will admit of the spectacular—are they hosts to other things?]    Lisa Lubasch
Hamlet    John Koethe
Poet's Sampler: Melanie Cooley    introduced by Alice Fulton