Editors’ Note

Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen

State of the Nation

A Costly Defense

Cindy Williams

Essays

Exhuming Neruda

Stephen Phelan

Getting Smarter

Claude S. Fischer

Founding Firearms

Pamela S. Karlan

“No to Profit”

Fighting Privatization in Chile
Lili Loofbourow

Picking Pebbles

The Morality of Choice
Deborah Stone

On Being an Octopus

Diving Deep in Search of the
Human Mind
Peter Godfrey-Smith

Unacceptable

Recovering Paul Goodman
Judith Levine

Little, Big

Two Ideas About Fighting
Global Poverty
Pranab Bardhan

Against the Brahmins

An Interview with Pankaj Mishra
Wajahat Ali—Web only

Martial Flaw

Why Tsarnaev Is Not an Enemy Combatant
Elizabeth Goitein—Web only

Fiction

The Forgetting Shiraz

E. Lily Yu

On Film

Lolita in Japan

Abbas Kiarostami’s
Like Someone in Love
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

“Discovery” Contest Winners

Catherine Blauvelt, Julia Guez,
Erika L. Sánchez, and Raena Shirali

New Nature

Women Poets Escape Family—
and Convention
Katie Peterson

A More Ordinary Poet

Seeking Emily Dickinson
Gillian Osborne

Poems

To Be a God

Justin Boening

Declining Public Appetite for Large Wars of Occupation

Dara Wier

from The Uses of the Body

Deborah Landau

Hold the Finch

Jean Valentine

Leopold Stokowski tells Marian Anderson, “My roof is too low
for you.”

Elizabeth Robinson

A Fly Inside a Fly a Thought Inside a Thought and Mario Santiago Inside Mario Santiago

Roberto Bolaño (translated by
Laura Healy)

Ecstasy

Jane Miller

Song of Upbringing

Chuya Nakahara (translated by Christian Nagle)

American Psalm

Dean Rader

The Boy Under the Car

John Freeman