State of the Nation

Election Contest: beat the experts!

Essays

Presidential Crimes

Elaine Scarry

The Party's Over

Douthat and Salam's Grand New Party
Lew Daly

History Matters

Why we must acknowledge the claims of the Palestinians
Joseph Levine

New Fiction Forum

Wordwatching

Gay James

Intimate Revenge

Writing the Troubles
Roger Boylan

The End of Sexual Identity

Fiction's new terrain
Stacy D'Erasmo

On Film

Working Wonders

Faith Akin's The Edge of Heaven
Alan A. Stone

On Poetry

Poets and the People

Reflections on solidarity during wartime
Robert von Hallberg

Out of Defeat

Aimé Césaire’s miraculous words
Colin Dayan

The Crucified Hand

Frank Bidart's Waiting for the Spring Festival
Raymond McDaniel

Microreviews

Poems

SPIT AND IMAGE

A web-only special
Ashley Capps

First Counter–clockwise Canto of the Moebius Strip

John Kinsella

Acorn Duly Crushed

Heather Christle

When the President is Black

Marlys West

Elegy

Bruce Bond

Hwan’s Condition

James Shea

Exit Ovidian

Dean Young

The Mosquito Monarchy

Adam O. Davis

And I Do Desire Your Looking Back

’Annah Sobelman

It Never Goes Away

Sophie Cabot Black

Poet's Sampler: Ashley Capps

Introduced by Graham Foust