Articles
The Devil You Know
Keeping the peace in Ramadi calls for a little moral dexterity
by John B. Renehan
Blue-Collar Brilliance
Questioning assumptions about intelligence, work, and social class
by Mike Rose
Words Apart
A writer in Quebec finds that language creates an unbridgeable divide
by Witold Rybczynski
Departments
Editor's Note
Tuning Up
Poetry
Gary Snyder's Long View
Langdon Hammer
Four Poems
Gary Snyder
Star Picture Tipi of Black Magpie
Dolores Hayden
Point of Departure
Commonplace Book
Book Essay
Remembering John Updike
A critic and his decades-long correspondence with one of America's best "freelance writers"
William H. Pritchard
Book Reviews
Barbarian Virtues
When Americans first yearned to transform themselves and save the world
Patricia O’Toole
The Lost Village
A Palestinian poet remembers the people and places he has lived without