State of the Nation

Tax and Spend

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Ending Urban Poverty

Introduction

Dalton Conley

The Inherited Ghetto

Understanding the persistence of racial inequality
Patrick Sharkey

Neighborhood Matters

Do housing vouchers work?
Stefanie DeLuca

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Essays

What Makes a Miracle

Some myths about the rise of China and India
Pranab Bardhan

All That is Given

Hannah Arendt on being Jewish
Vivian Gornick

New Fiction Forum

Mugger and Mouse Get Married

Fiction
Michael Agresta

Out of Exile

Notes on Bulgarian Literature
Dimiter Kenarov

A Fiendish Mood

The mid-century novels of "the other Elizabeth Taylor"
Neel Mukherjee

On Film

Modern Hell

Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Unfinished Story

Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust
Kathryn Crim

Small Packages

Emblems of Desire: Selections from the Délie of Maurine Scève, edited and translated by Richard Sieburth
Jennifer Grotz

Neither Settled Nor Easy

C.D. Wright's One Big Self: An Investigation
Alan Gilbert

Microreviews

Poems

To Reap the Field

Tomaž Šalamun

You Are at Home Here

Tomaž Šalamun

Let's

Martha Zweig

Overturn

Martha Zweig

The Lieutentant, Returned

Iain Haley Pollock

Tradition, With Industry

Geoff Bouvier

Conifers

Mark Bibbins

The Drawing

Sabrina Orah Mark

Letters from the Boreal Hermitess

Jennifer Chang

Poet's Sampler: Cyrus Console

Introduced by Geoffrey G. O'Brien