New Democracy Forum

The Case for Proportional Representation Robert Richie & Steven Hill
     - A PR Glossary
     - John Stuart Mill on Proportional Representation

Keep It Simple   Cynthia McKinney
Cautionary Notes   John Ferejohn
Solving the Race Problem    E. Joshua Rosenkranz
Instability?    Gary W. Cox
Making It Happen    Daniel Cantor
Mixing the Message   Ross Mirkarimi 
Come Out Fighting   Anthony Thigpenn 
A Bigger Picture   Pamela S. Karlan 
Richie and Hill Respond   

Essays

Victims and Agents   Martha C. Nussbaum
What Greek tragedy can teach us about sympathy and responsibility.

Henry James at the Movies    Alan A. Stone
With a decadent sensuality, The Wings of the Dove reaches for the galleries.

The Magnolia Street Commune   Vivian Rothstein
A story of feminism, sexual conflict, radical politics, and the hope for community.

Fiction

Two Stories   Paul Deppler
The Barge   Stephen Dixon

Poetry

Poet's Sampler: Martha Zweig    introduced by Heather McHugh
Poems from The Floor of the Mall   Anne Doolittle
I Will, I Will Not   Kirk Nesset
The Ceremony of Opening the Mouth and the Eyes   Forrest Gander
Discretionary Income   Brian Henry
It's a Small Design, Frost   Tom Thompson

Exchange

Why Do We Cooperate?   Herbert Gintis and H. Allen Orr
An exchange on genes and culture.

Book Reviews

Poetry
Jane Miller: Memory at These Speeds    reviewed by Karen Volkman
Charles Olson: Collected Prose    reviewed by John Palattella
Amy Gerstler: Crown of Weeds    reviewed by Thylias Moss
Poetry Microreviews

Prose
Lawrence Steinberg: Beyond the Classroom
Murnane and Levy: Teaching the New Basic Skills    reviewed by Allen Graubard
Iris Murdoch: Existentialists and Mystics    reviewed by Elijah Millgram
Prose Microreviews

Cover illustration by Nick Thorkelson