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  • Commentary |April 9, 2026

    on After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

    reviewed by Hamilton Cain

    “The book couldn’t be timelier: the wars in the Middle East signal the folly of American Empire, seeking to entrap other countries, an historical inflection point — an ‘unraveling of political cultures built up over many decades.'”

  • Essay |April 9, 2026

    “We Try to Ignore the Elephant Somehow”

    an essay by Philip Metres

    “Isbell’s songs provide the language for saying something that so few of us can say on our own, whether we’re racked by guilt or shame or grief for all the things that life does to us, and we do to life.”

  • Commentary |April 9, 2026

    on Abundant Life: new & selected poems by Hank Lazer

    reviewed by Patrick Pritchett

    “Lazer’s poetry attests to the ambiguity attending to questions of spirit; that it is unsettled, in process – a doubt, a question, a restless questing negativity, eating away at its own boundaries.”

  • Poetry |April 9, 2026

    “You Thrill Me So” & “Art”

    two poems by David Kirby

    “A speaker at the memorial for my friend Miles is saying / that when his wife died eleven years earlier, Miles never /got over it, which reminds me of a letter in the advice / column of today’s paper …”

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