Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

No Middle Ground

Kendra Bischoff and Sean F. Reardon

Essays

Purifying Kashmir

Tariq Mir

How to Be Poor

Claude S. Fischer

When the Umpire Throws the Pitches

Pamela S. Karlan

The Antidepressant Wars

A Fierce Debate that Ignores Patients
Sandra Tanenbaum

Much to Answer For

James Q. Wilson’s Legacy
Glenn C. Loury

Bodies with Histories

The New Search for the Biology of Race
Anne Fausto-Sterling

The Loneliness Scare

Isolation Isn’t a Growing Problem
Claude S. Fischer—Web only

That’s Not Really Destroying America

An Interview with Claude S. Fischer
David V. Johnson—Web only

Capitalism and the Urban Struggle

An Interview with David Harvey
David V. Johnson—Web only

Exterminate the Brutes

Your Pit Bull Is Too Violent to Live—Even if it Isn’t
Colin Dayan—Web only

Fiction

Xochimilco

Esmé-Michelle Watkins

On Film

Never So Free

Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

“Discovery” Contest Winners

Mario Chard, Rebecca Hazelton, Rosalie Moffett, and Franke Varca

Poetry on the Brink

Reinventing the Lyric
Marjorie Perloff

Writing about Sex

The Shocking and Thrilling D. A. Powell
Stephen Burt

Poet’s Sampler

Introduced by Catie Rosemurgy
Sarah Blake

Poems

One Bird Behind One Bird

Amy King

The Stars in an Alternative Universe

Kate Jenkins

Drinking with Mephistopheles

T.J. Jarrett

Protective Balls

Scott Withiam

Manifesto for Tumor and Poem

Jo Ann Clark

The New Cinema

Joseph Chapman

Experience is a Thief’s Best Friend

Stephanie Ford

Eye of the Horse

Haines Eason

Sola Fide

Joseph Chapman

Golden Buddha

Sandra Simonds

National Poetry Month 2012

A special package in celebration of verse
Multiple authors—Web only