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New Democracy Forum

What's Hurting the Middle Class

The myth of overspending obscures the real problem

Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi

With responses by Jacob S. Hacker, Jonathan Gruber, G. Marcus Cole, Jeff Madrick, Stephen Brobeck, David Crockett, Chuck Collins, A. Mechele Dickerson, Tamara Draut, Jared Bernstein, Robert D. Manning, and Juliet Schor


Essays

A Witness to Murder

Looking at photographs of the condemned
Susie Linfield

Do The Right Thing

Cognitive Science's search for a common morality
Rebecca Saxe

Special Section: 30 Years of Boston Review

New Fiction Forum

Summer of Nene

Ivelisse Rodriguez

An American Prophet

Marilynne Robinson's vision
M.K. Chakrabarti

On Film

Explaining Love Away

Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queen
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Earthbound

James Richardson's Interglacial
John Koethe

Disappearing Acts

Frank Bidart's Star Dust
Jacob Edmond

Object Relations

Mary Jo Bang's The Eye Like a Strange Balloon and Debora Greger's Western Art
Barbara Fischer

Microreviews

Poems

I Wanted the Screen Door of Summer

Peter Gizzi

The Quest

Peter Gizzi

Pliny I & II

Dan Chiasson

There Is a Star in the Sea

Dan Chiasson

The Caedmon Room

Allen Grossman

Abandon Yourself to That Which Is Inevitable

C.D. Wright

I Know of No Better World

Ingeborg Bachmann, translated by Peter Filkins

Two Sonnets

Karen Volkman

Poet's Sampler: Charlotte Boulay

Introduced by Thomas Lynch



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