January/February 2010
Something From Nothing: U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
Nir Rosen leads a forum on U. S. strategy in Afghanistan; Andrew Bacevich, Helena Cobban, Andrew Exum, Aziz Hakimi, and others respond. Dean Baker on too-big-to-fail; Nasser Hussain on counterinsurgency as colonialism; Islamophobia in Europe; Vladimir Nabokov's The Original of Laura; a poem by Cathy Park Hong.
Forum
Something From Nothing: U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
Nir Rosen
With responses by Andrew Bacevich, Helena Cobban, Andrew Exum, Aziz Hakimi, Syed Saleem Shahzad, J. Alexander Thier, Richard W. Miller, Rajan Menon, and a reply from Nir Rosen.
Essays
State of the Nation: The State of Boston
Stephen Ansolabehere
The Big Bank Theory
How government helps financial giants get richer
Dean Baker
Counterinsurgency's Comeback
Can a colonialist strategy be reinvented?
Nasser Hussain
Nothing to Fear
Misreading Muslim immigration in Europe
John R. Bowen
All Bark, No Bite
The Decline of Germany's Social Democrats
Clay Risen
Whitewashing Haiti's History
Sidney W. MintzFine By Me
Geoff Dyer’s unlikely terms of engagement
James Wallenstein
Last Wishes
Vladimir Nabokov’s The Original of Laura
Leland de la Durantaye
Fiction
Wednesday Nights: A Memoir
Vestal McIntyre
On Film
The Jewish Question
Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man
Alan A. Stone
On Poetry
Poet’s Sampler
Introduced by Mark Strand
Christopher Kondrich
Smothered to Smithereens
The poetics of motherhood
Stephen Burt
Microreviews
Roberto Bolaño
Filip Marinovich
Cal Bedient
Dobby Gibson
Charlie Smith
Poems
Description of a Badly Drawn Horse
Daniel Johnson
Vault
Alice Jones
Idyll
Alice Jones
Prometheus
William Wadsworth
Squill
Ange Mlinko
A Brief History of Ghost Hunting
Joshua Marie Wilkinson
A Brief History of Spying
Joshua Marie WilkinsonMy Herculaneum
Jennifer Franklin
The Cake
Mark Irwin
The Engineer of Vertical Frontiers
Cathy Park Hong
