State of the Nation

Electricity and elections

Essays

Inside Rumsfeld's Pentagon

Andrew J. Bacevich

The Gunslinger

John Bolton's Surrender is Not an Option
Stephen J. Stedman

Outside the Big Box

Who speaks for today's small businesses?
Nicole D. Kazee, Michael Lipsky, and Cathie Jo Martin

Response to Outside the Big Box

from the President of the National Small Business Association
Todd O. McCracken

Bolt from the Blue

The promise and problems of Obama's faith-based plan
Lew Daly

New Fiction Forum

Gone

Danielle Lazarin

The Mirror

Imagining justice in Palestine
Elias Khoury

We Laughed, We Cried

Flann O'Brien's triumph
Roger Boylan

On Film

A Different Drum

Tom McCarthy's The Visitor
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Over the Last Limit

Resurrecting Vladimir Mayakovsky
Marjorie Perloff

Free Verse

Alan Filreis's Counter-Revolution of the Word
Charles Bernstein

Landmarks

Kathleen Jamie's Waterlight and Findings
Tess Taylor

Microreviews

Poems

occasional for hollow bones

Victoria Brockmeier

Fear of the Possible

Anna Catone

Baited Sonnet

Brian Henry

The Coast of What

Brian Henry

North Cambridge

John Koethe

Interview under Hypnosis

Jennifer Militello

Pure Indonesia

Allan Peterson

Stripes of Knowing How Much Further I Had to Go

Amy Newlove Schroeder

The Lost Tin Myth

Lytton Smith

Poet's Sampler: Youna Kwak

Introduced by Joanna Klink