Contents

NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM
Exit Strategy
How to disengage from Iraq in 18 months    Barry R. Posen

With Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Senator Joseph Biden, Vivek Chibber, Senator Russell Feingold, Randall Forsberg, Lawrence Korb and Brian Katulis, Helena Cobban, Christopher Preble, Eliot Weinberger, and Nir Rosen

Response by Barry R. Posen

ESSAYS
The Drifters
Why the Supreme Court makes justices more liberal    Jon D. Hanson and Adam Benforado

France's Revolt
Can the Republic live up to its ideals?     John R. Bowen

A World Without Race
Does black nationalism have to go too?     Dorothy Roberts

NEW FICTION FORUM
December Story  FICTION    D.S. Sulaitis

A Cartoon World
Daniel Clowes's Ice Haven     Ken Parille

Ian McEwan's Family Values
Saturday and other novels     Roger Boylan

ON POETRY
Borrowed Lines
Mark Nowak's Shut Up Shut Down and Eleni Sikelianos's The Book of Jon    Susan M. Schultz

Writing on White Air
First books by Ander Monson, Michelle Robinson, and Sam Taylor    Jennifer Grotz

Keeping Company
Michael Palmer's Company of Moths    Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Microreviews

ON FILM
Trapped
Rodrigo García's Nine Lives    Alan A. Stone

POEMS
Grass Psalm    Ales Debeljak, translated by Andrew Zawacki and the author
Unnecessary Noise Prohibited    C. Durning Carroll
In the Scanner    Robley Evans
Winter Field    Joanna Klink
My Husband Sat Up    Caroline Knox
Surrender of Breda    Ernest Hilbert
Victim of the Culture of facelessness    Thylias Moss
from Helsinki    Peter Richards
Poet's Sampler: Dan Chelotti     introduced by Dara Wier