Editor’s Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

Elections Foretold

Stephen Ansolabehere

Essays

Zigzag Ice Dragon

Matthew Fishbane

Al Qaeda and the Pakistan Floods

Syed Saleem Shahzad

Karlan’s Court: In the Beginning

Pamela S. Karlan

At War In Texas

Tom Barry

Real Americans

William Hogeland

The Ancient Dream

Vivian Gornick

Colonial Studies

Deborah M. Gordon

Off Minor

Robin D.G. Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Scott Saul

Our Man In Guatemala

America’s 1940s syphilis study
An interview with Susan Reverby—Web only

Fiction

The Moor

Ben Stroud

On Film

The Rebel

Luca Guadagnino’s I am Love
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

No Letting Go

Bob Hicok’s Words for Empty and Words for Full
Keith Taylor

Degrees of Sight

Don Pateron’s Rain
Dai George

Microreviews

Frederick Farryl Goodwin
Robin Ekiss
Maggie Nelson

Poems

Reductive

Arthur Vogelsang

Puff-puff-puff! Parading Grandpas

Milosz Biedrzycki
translated by Frank L. Vigoda

Always a Fragment. Telephony

Milosz Biedrzycki
translated by Frank L. Vigoda

Office

Allison Titus

Abeyance

Jose Perez Beduya

The Fold

Jose Perez Beduya

The Nerve Fibers

Mary Jo Bang

Conquest

Adam L. Dressler

There Is a Law Against It Here

Jessica Fjeld

Mouse in a Government Building

Shelley Roche-Jacques

If a Train

Jason Labbe

Poet’s Sampler: Sarah V. Schweig

Introduced by Mark Strand