Essays

The Treacherous Medium

Why photography critics hate photographs
Susie Linfield

The Lost Immigration Debate

Border control didn't always dictate policy
Mae M. Ngai

Charle's Murray's New Plan

Ending the welfare state as we know it
Dalton Conley

New Fiction Forum

Siblings

Fiction
Yvonne Woon

Native Speaker

Sayed Kashua's Dancing Arabs and Let It Be Morning
Laila Lalami

On Film

A Forbidden Hope

Deepa Mehta's Water
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

The Brain's Tent

Lynette Robert's Collected Poems
John Wilkinson

Zoned

Joshua Clover's The Totality for Kids
John Palattella

Make It New

Seven Books
Brian Kim Stefans

Microreviews

Poems

Let my mother conquer me, let her

Jermey Valentine Freeman

The Footfalls of a Great Criminal

César Vallejo, translated by Clayton Eshleman

The Conflict Between the Eye's and the Gaze

César Vallejo, translated by Clayton Eshleman

Virgil's Cow

Fredrick Farryl Goodwin

Dr. Death

Fredrick Farryl Goodwin

Self-Portrait as Shedding

Cary McHugh

Self-Portrait as Seismograph

Cecily Parks

Coup-de-Soleil

Cate Marvin

So

Hank Lazer

Here

Hank Lazer

Poet's Sampler: Kate Hall

Introduced by Matthew Zapruder