In the issue: Chris Hooks on America’s birthday; William T. Vollmann’s primer on a free people’s government; Ann Manov reports from Florida, where the GOP is aiming to save the humanities; a memoir from Meghan O’Gieblyn; Clare Bucknell on Johannes Vermeer; Rosanna Warren on John Berryman; and a story from Padgett Powell. Read the full table of contents here.
