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

Three rediscovered novels by Richard Hughes
John Crowley

Other People's Grief

Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days
Jan Clausen

On Film

Choosing Love

Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Eighth Annual Poetry Contest

This year's winner: Mike Perrow
Mark Strand

A Poet's Hope

The works of Paul Celan
Marjorie Perloff

Fatal Affliction

Saskia Hamilton's Divide These
Raymond McDaniel

Microreviews

Poems

Chamber Heart

Anne Dude, translated by Andrew Shields

Site

John Kinsella

The Circle of the Fifths

Catherine Meng

A Set Peice

Jesse Ball

Endless Topic

Richard Meier

Composite after Three Poems in the Same Anthology

Rafael Campo

Waste Capital

Giles Goodland

Double Sonnet

Dara Wier

Kansas in Verse

Joanne Straley

Poet's Sampler: Christin Call

introduced by Albert Goldbarth