State of the Nation

Court of Public Opinion

Is the Constitution a “living document”?

Essays

Texting Toward Utopia

Does the Internet spread democracy?
Evgeny Morozov

Small, Green, and Good

The role of neglected cities in a sustainable future
Catherine Tumber

State of Emergency

A personal history of Pakistan on the brink
Moni Mohsin

The Triangle

Policy wonks, patronage, and the possibilities of the grassroots—web feature
Michael Gecan

Reflections on Information Technology and Democracy

How is the Internet changing democratic discourse?—web feature
Joshua Cohen

New Fiction Forum

Concerning the Correct Way to Make Cabbage

D.S. Sulaitis

Fateful Gates

The lives of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Roger Boylan

The Collaborator

Patrick French's The World is What it Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
James Wallenstein

On Film

Condemned

Stephen Daldry’s The Reader
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

After Ariel

Celebrating the poetry of the women's movement
Honor Moore

What Country is This?

Rereading LeRoi Jones’s The Dead Lecturer
Adrienne Rich

Song and Silence

My Fanny Howe
Maureen N. McLane

Fighting Words

Lyn Hejinian’s Saga/Circus
Joyelle McSweeney

Love Letters

Brenda Wineapple’s White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickenson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Cecily Parks

Microreviews

Thomas James
Coral Bracho
Bonnie Costello
Ariana Reines
Mary Ruefle
Kevin Young
Devin Johnston
Jennifer Chang

Poems

Finally April and the Birds Are Falling Out of the Air with Joy

Anne Carson

Shakur

Terrance Hayes

The Feast

David Baker

Ten Venices

James Longenbach

Blink

Linda Gregerson

E Is Everywhere

Mary Jo Bang

Poem for John McCain

Matthew Zapruder

Fawn

Joseph Campana

Outpatient Procedure

Alan Gilbert

The Documents

Mathias Svalina

Flemish

Caroline Knox

Poet’s Sampler: Kristin Fitzsimmons

Introduced by Adam Zagajewski