Highlights
from the January/February 2007 issue:
CAN WE STOP GLOBAL WARMING?
Phaeton's
Reins
The human hand in climate change
Kerry Emanuel
With proposals about what to do now
by Nicholas Stern; David
G. Victor and Danny Cullenward; Judy
Layzer and William Moomaw; Jeffrey
Logan, Joanna Lewis, and Michael B. Cummings; and Kirsten
Oleson and Chandra Shekhar Sinha
ESSAYS
Truth, Lies, and Accountability
In search
of justice for East Timor
Joseph Nevins
Orientalism
Revisited
Edward Said's unfinished
critique
Lawrence Rosen
Inside
the Madrasa
A personal history
Ebrahim Moosa
The
Beginning of Wisdom
On reading
H.G. Wells
Vivian Gornick
The
Crucible
What's at stake in
the sex-ed wars
Maureen N. McLane
PLUS:
New poems
by John Ashbery; Tanya Larkin
on Kenneth Koch; Roger Boylan on John McGahern;
fiction by Ivelisse Rodriguez; poetry criticism
by Brian Teare and Joyelle McSweeney;
poems by James Longenbach, Stephanie Cleveland, Travis Nichols,
John Isles, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Rebecca Reynolds,
Erica Bernheim, and Jynne Dilling Martin; Alan
A. Stone reviews Stranger than Fiction; and more.
(Complete table
of contents.)
Highlights
from the November/December 2006 issue:
SPECIAL REPORT
Anatomy
of a Civil War
Iraq's descent into chaos
Nir Rosen
ESSAYS
Rules
of Engagement
Why military
honor matters
Elaine Scarry
The
33-Day War
Hizbullah's victory,
Israel's choice
Helena Cobban
The
Lesser Evil
Using American force
wisely
Anatol Lieven
PLUS: Charles Johnson
on John Champlin Gardner; C.D.
Wright introduces Marc Gaba, the winner of
the ninth annual poetry contest; fiction by Madeline
Kotowicz; poetry criticism by Susan Barba and
Tom Thompson; poems by Stephanie Pippin, Noah
Eli Gordon, Nick Admussen, Landis Everson, Joan Houlihan, Martha
Ronk, and David Blair; Alan A. Stone
reviews André Téchiné's Changing Times;
and more.
(Complete table
of contents.)
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Iraq's descent into chaos
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The Iraqi
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Iraq's
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Why the insurgency won't go away
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Exit Strategy
How to disengage from Iraq in 18 months
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The roots of sectarian violence
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