Contents

NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM
Making Aid Work    NOW A BOOK!
How to fight global poverty—effectively    Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

With Ian Goldin, F. Halsey Rogers, and Nicholas Stern, Mick Moore , Ian Vásquez, Angus Deaton, Alice H. Amsden, Robert H. Bates, Carlos Barbery, Howard White, Jagdish Bhagwati, Raymond C. Offenheiser and Didier Jacobs and Ruth Levine

Response by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

STATE OF THE NATION
Would you vote for or against banning late-term abortion? Would you vote for or against amending the Constitution to ban gay marriage? A public-opinion feature by MIT researchers.

ESSAYS
The Forbidden Experiment
What can we learn from the wild child?    Rebeccca Saxe

Age of Anxiety
The old ideas won't work in the war on terror     Kevin Mattson

NEW FICTION FORUM
The Dance  FICTION
Jennie Berner

Bad News 
T.E. Holt

Narayan Days
Rereading the master    Jhumpa Lahiri

New England Stories
Kathryn Davis's The Thin Place    G.C. Waldrep

ON POETRY
Science Into Poetry
On Raymond Queneau    Marjorie Welish

Seduced
Legitimate Dangers, edited by Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin   Katie Peterson

Wild by Nature
Elizabeth Willis's Meteoric Flowers    Stefania Heim

Microreviews

ON FILM
Unknowable
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's L'Enfant    Alan A. Stone

POEMS  
Brush Fire    Quinn Latimer
The Ark Of     Seth Abramson
Theatre    Mei Underhill
from Angle of Yaw    Ben Lerner
Notes on Exoticism    Angie Yuan
You and Me    Tom Thompson
An Underworldliness    Heather McHugh
Peyote      Liam Rector
Poet's Sampler: Nicholas Harp      introduced by Stephen Dunn