Contents

FREE AND FAIR
The Rebel and Mr. Danger
Is Bush's nightmare Venezuela's salvation?
Greg Grandin  

Hamas's Next Steps
Finding the road to Palestine
Helena Cobban  

The Brotherhood
How far will Egypt's Islamists go?
Stephen Glain

Memory Place
Argentina's campaign against the past
Marc B. Haefele

STATE OF THE NATION
Is your job threatened by overseas competition? Do you think that more or fewer immigrants should be allowed to come to the United States? Were you born in the United States? Were your grandparents? A public-opinion feature by MIT researchers.

ESSAYS
Job's Hope
On not knowing God    Ben-Zion Gold

What Mind–Body Problem?
Uncerstanding consciousness may be easier than we thought     Alex Byrne

Politics as Usual
How the Republicans came to rule the South    Jefferson Decker

NEW FICTION FORUM
How to Escape from a Leper Colony  FICTION
The winner of Boston Review's 13th annual fiction contest Tiphanie Yanique

Name Calling
Colson Whitehead's Apex Hides the Hurt    Andrée Greene

Bridge Building
On writing Brookland    Emily Barton

ON POETRY
Extended Play
Elizabeth Bishop's Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box    John Palattella

Talk, Talk, Talk
David Antin's i never knew what time it was    Ernest Larson

A Waiting Heart
John Koethe's Sally's Hair    Robert Hahn

Microreviews

ON FILM
Judgment Day
Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain and Paul Haggis's Crash    Alan A. Stone

POEMS  
That Everything's Inevitable    Katy Lederer
A Triumvirate    Katy Lederer
from Letters to Michael    Mark McMorris
A Village Journal    Sandra Lim
Fate    Robert Desnos, translated by William Kulik
Furniture of the World    Kathy Nilsson
from Shy Green Fields    Hugh Steinberg
Poet's Sampler: Jenny Boully      introduced by Mary Jo Bang