Essays

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance
William Hogeland

Words Behind Bars

Do prisoners have a right to read what they want?
Colin Dayan

Left Behind

Romanticizing Germany's urban guerillas
Paul Hockenos

New Fiction Forum

A Baby Is A Baby Is A Baby

Fiction
Matthew Stuart

The Cynic

Fiction
Charles Johnson

Something for Myself

Haruki Murakami's strange world of hope
Catalina Holguín

On Film

Making Monsters

Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

His Face in the Mirror

Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems: 1956-1998
W. Martin

The Testament of Mr. Cogito

Zbigniew Herbert and the limits of the political
Alissa Valles

Enlivened Parties

Joanna Klink's Circadian and Geofrrey G. O'Brien's Green and Gray
Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Microreviews

Poems

Variants on Binding

Stephanie Anderson

Red Glass Necklace

John Spaulding

The Whole False History of Human Beings

Arthur Vogelsang

A Skeleton I Made From Skeletons I Found

Scott Topper

The Ghost Back Home

Fred Muratori

Old Bills

John Updike

please advise stop, I

Rusty Morrison

please advise stop, II

Rusty Morrison

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

Kevin Young

Poet's Sampler: Matthew Dickman

Introduced by Major Jackson

Winner of the tenth annual Boston Reivew poetry contest: Elizabeth Willis

Introduced by Susan Stewart