Martha Nussbaum on Islamic liberalism under fire in India; John Bowen on “recognizing sharia” in England; Evgeny Morozov on whether the Internet spreads democracy; Catherine Tumber on green prospects for smaller cities.

National poetry month: essays by Adrienne Rich, Honor Moore, and Maureen McClane; poems by Anne Carson, Terrance Hayes, Linda Gregerson, Mary Jo Bang, and more.

Fixing the Economy: Dean Baker on market regulation, Robert Pollin’s proposals for a financial regulatory system, Jeff Madrick on big government.

David Cole on closing Guantánamo; Barnett R. Rubin on Afghan elites; Abbas Milani on democracy in Iran; a poem by Rae Armantrout.

Michael D. Mastrandrea and Stephen H. Schneider on adapting to climate change; Martha Nussbaum on grief and Justice; Richard Stallman is no fan of One Laptop Per Child; William Hogeland delves into the public history of the Constituton.

South Asian political novels; listening to Jack Spicer.

Frank Rijsberman on water scarcity; Rosamond Naylor and Walter Falcon on the food crisis; Elaine Scarry argues for prosecuting Bush administration torturers.

Roger Boylan reads the literature of Ireland's "Troubles"; Robert von Hallberg on war poems; Colin Dayan on Aimé Césaire.

After Prison: Bruce Western on reentry; Mary Fainsod Katzenstein and Mary Lyndon Shanley on incarcerated fathers; Robert Perkinson on the history of the prison boom. Andrew Bacevich on the boken pentagon; Elias Khoury on justice in Palestine.

Marjorie Perloff on Vladimir Mayakovsky; Charles Bernstein reviews Alan Filreis; poems by John Koethe and Allan Peterson.

In the forum, Edward Miguel is optimistic about growth in Africa. Olu Ajakaiye, Paul Collier, Rachel Glennerster, and others respond.

William Hogeland on Pete Seeger and William F. Buckley; Zakes Mda on South African fiction; Patricia Engel's contest-winning short story; Maureen McLane on Emily Dickinson, post-9/11; poems by Barbara Claire Freeman and D.A. Powell.

Jonathan Zittrain leads a forum on the balance between security and freedom on the Internet, with responses from Richard Stallman, Bruce Owen, Susan Crawford, and others.

John Rawls on baseball, the best of all games; Michael Gecan on suburban decline; a short story by Dagoberto Gilb; Stephen Burt reviews Laura Kasischke; Katie Peterson on Robert Hass.

Reporting from the Middle East, Nir Rosen investigates the growth of al Qaeda in Lebanon; ending urban poverty, with Dalton Conley, Patrick Sharkey, and Stefanie DeLuca.

Pranab Bardhan on myths of Chinese and Indian growth; Vivian Gornick on Hannah Arendt; Dimiter Kenarov on Bulgarian literature; two poems by Tomaž Šalamun.