Essays

State of the Nation: the Supreme Court

What do Americans think about property, punishment and privacy?
Stephen Ansolabehere

The Lost Radical

Edward Carpenter’s democracy of the soul
Vivian Gornick

Edit This Page

Is it the end of Wikipedia?
Evgeny Morozov

Biography and the Bench

Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law
Ryan Thoreson

New Fiction Forum

Life Work

Nicholson Baker grows up
John Crowley

One, Two, Three, and Four Rabbits

and Where’s Your Sense of Humor?
Aura Estrada

Desperately Seeking Sam

Remembering Beckett twenty years after his death
Roger Boylan

On Film

Purely Coincidental

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

12th annual Poetry Contest Winner

Congratulations to John Gallaher, who won BR’s 12th annual contest with his “Guidebook” series of reality-TV inspired poems.
Introduced by Rae Armantrout

A Distant Pleasure

New translations of C.P. Cavafy
Keith Taylor

World Tumbling into World

Dan Beachy-Quick’s A Whaler’s Dictionary and This Nest, Swift Passerine
B.K. Fischer

Microreviews

James Tate
Susan Parr
D.A. Powell
Brian Teare
Allison Benis White

Poems

The Pale Side of the Leaves

D. Nurkse

The Transit of the Beautiful

L.S. Klatt

Liquefaction

L.S. Klatt

Oneiric Theory

Miranda Field

Nocturama: Novel Excerpt

Christine Hume

Nebenwelt

Cynthia Cruz

Carnival

Andre Bagoo

Politic

Nick Courtright

Forage

Amelia Klein

Poet’s Sampler: Farnoosh Fathi

Introduced by Christine Hume