Forum: Citizenship in Emergency

Elaine Scarry

With responses from Richard Falk, Paul W. Khan, Stephen M. Walt, Charles Knight, Antonia Chayes, Catherine Lutz, Rear Admiral Eugene A. Carroll, Randall Forsberg, and Ellen Willis. Scarry replies.

From one light to another

Karen Zusman

Facing South by True North

Don Hymans

By the wayside

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Victims for the Prosecution

Susan F. Hirsch

Hotel Eidetic; Hotel Voluptuary; Hotel Famish

Kerri Webster

The Diaspora and the Intifada

Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold

Embryonic Stem Cell Research

F.M. Kamm

Poet’s Sampler

Gillian Conoley introduces Katy Lederer

Fifth Annual Poetry Contest Winner: Poet’s Sampler

Max Winter

Indians

Scott Blackwood

Ten Questions for Mona

Matthew Zapruder

Feminist Icons in Love

Vivian Gornick

Making History

Richard A. Kaye

Reviewed:

Haussmann, or the Distinction

by Paul LaFarge. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001.

L.C.

by Susan Daitch. Dalkey Archive Press, 2002.

Do We Need a God?

Richard Eldridge

Reviewed:

Varieties of Religion Today

by Charles Taylor. Harvard University Press, 2002.

Unnatural Sentences

Brenda Wineapple

Reviewed:

Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science

by Steven Meyer. Stanford University Press, 2001.

Nonfiction MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Globalization in World History

edited by A. G. Hopkins. W. W. Norton, 2002.

The Questions of Tenure

edited by Richard P. Chait. Harvard University Press, 2002.

The Future of Life

by Edward O. Wilson. Knopf, 2002.

Apostrophe (deftly turned phrase)

Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler-Henry

Stripped-Down Sappho

John D’Agata

Reviewed:

If Not, Winter

by Anne Carson. Knopf, 2002.

Celebrating a World in Danger

Bin Ramke

Reviewed:

Never

by Jorie Graham. Ecco/HarperCollins, 2002.

Modernism, Again

Cole Swensen

Reviewed:

The Sense Record and Other Poems

by Jennifer Moxley. Edge Books, 2002.

The Guns and Flags Project

by Geoffrey G. O’Brien. University of California Press, 2002.

Poetry MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Fugue State

by Bill Berkson. Zoland Books, 2001.

Music Like Dirt

by Frank Bidart. Sarabande Books, 2002.

Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature

by Yunte Huang. University of California Press, 2002.

Earliest Worlds

by Eleni Sikelianos. Coffee House Press, 2001.

Haunt (No-Boundary Proposals)

by Keith Waldrop. Instance Press, 2000.

The Good House

by Rod Smith. Spectacular Books, 2001.

Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls

by John Gallaher. Spuyten Dayvil, 2001.

The Grammar of Nails

by Amy Scattergood. Creative Arts Book Company, 2001.

Darwin and Design

William A. Dembski and H. Allen Orr

Contingency and Grace

Alan A. Stone

More Like Montpelier

Ethan Paquin