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Current issue, No. 56

Battle Hymns of the Old South

Barry Yeoman

Down but not out in Alamance County

How to Become an Intellectual in Silicon Valley

Aaron Timms

A guide for the dangerous of thought

Wagnermania

Nathan Shields

The revolutionary contradictions of Richard Wagner

Why Read the Classics?

Abdelfattah Kilito, April 5

Runaway American Dreams

Dennis M. Hogan

On the Boss’s long political trajectory.

London Calling

Daniel Trilling

A new book surveys London’s long history of immigration.

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Asylum Is Not an Open Question

Felipe De La Hoz

Pundits and policymakers treat international law like a mere suggestion.

In This World You Have to Sell Something

Carley Gomez

Sister Helene swings her baseball bat across Richard’s dresser and shards of decorative junk fly everywhere in the vast bedroom.

Epic Power Failures

Michael King

As Rick Perry wondered, “What's up in Texas?”

Castes of Mind

Suraj Yengde

On the intersection of race and caste.

Poems

Say Each Day Your Body Wakes Another Body

Robert Fanning

opens inside of you. First fissure, then split, then spread: this body
unfurling thick and heavy-headed as a peony, as. . .

A Conversation Between Women

Jennifer Chang

My friend, who lost her husband
twice, first in death
and then in betrayal, orders
the pinot noir.

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From the Magazine

Current issue, No. 56

Down but not out in Alamance County

A guide for the dangerous of thought

The revolutionary contradictions of Richard Wagner

Online

Poems

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Poems

Fiction