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Exit Strategy

How to disengage from Iraq in 18 months

Barry R. Posen

With responses by 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 Film

Trapped

Rodrigo García's Nine Lives
Alan A. Stone

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

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



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