Boston Review

Volume 21, Number 5
November 1996

Democracy Project

• Editor's Note
• Atilio Boron, Democracy or Neoliberalism
• Frank Michelman, Democracy and Positive Liberty

• Fred Block, Creatures of the Right
• Stephen Burt, High Windows and Four Letter Words: a note on Philip Larkin
• Marc Haefele, The Autumn of the Nostalgiacrats
• Daniel Dennett, The Scope of Natural Selection: the author replies to "Dennett's Strange Idea."
  
• H. Allen Orr Replies

• Martha Nussbaum, Double Moral Standards?
• Jessica Neuwirth, A Spark for Change
• Frances Kamm, Is Body Intrusion Special?
• Robert George, Vices Here and Abroad
• Yael Tamir Replies

• Michael Hawley, Nelson

Poems

Poetry Sampler, Wilard Spiegelman introduces Robert Hahn

• Charles Simic, The Master of Ceremonies
• Liam Rector, The Worry of the Far Right
• Caudia Keelan, Again, From the Beginning
• Rebecca Kaiser, Dunkin' Donuts-Somerville, Mass.

Reviews

Film

• Alan Stone, The Prophet of Hope
  With Lone Star, John Sayles has given compelling artistic life to his moral sensibility.

Books

Poetry
• Peter Sacks,The Chain by Tom Sleigh
• Elizabeth Macklin, Meadowlands by Louise Glück

Prose

• Allison Stark Draper, The Life of God (As Told By Himself) by Franco Ferrucci
• Erik Rieselbach, Slowness by Milan Kundera
• Ivan Krielkamp, Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music by Simon Frith
• Mark Sanders, Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship by J.M. Coetzee

Microreviews

• Poetry
  Brian Lennon, Love Had a Compass: Journals and Poetry by Robert Lax

  A.V. Christie, Beckon by Gillian Conoley

  Barbara Fischer, Cities of Memory by Ellen Hinsey

  Timothy Donnelly, Edge: Claire Malroux, translated by Marilyn Hacker

  Timothy Donnelly, The Crack In Everything, Alicia Suskin Ostriker

  Maureen Seaton, The Forest, Susan Stewart

  Mark Wunderlich, The Lord and the General Din of the World, Jane Mead

  Erin Belieu, The Uses of Passion, Angie Estes

  Denise Duhamel, Valentine Place by David Lehman

  Malcolm Farley, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner

Prose

Hardy Long, Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt

Don Eron, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt

Sarah Browning, An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel

Joseph Shea, An Experiment in Love by Steven Millhauser

Aman Garcha, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Susannah Hunnewell, Toddler Hunting & Other Stories by Kono Taeko

Rosemary Pepper, The Hollow-Eyed Ange by Janwillem van de Wetering

Amy Meselson, Representations of the Intellectual by Edward Said

Joshua Cohen, Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik by Ira Katznelson