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October/November 2001

Machine Politics

A debate on the future of voting technology with Stephen Ansolabehere, Lloyd Cutler, Robert Michel, Donna Brazile, and others. Josh Cohen interviews missile defense critic Ted Postol. James Campbell on the troubled history of the Nobel Prize for literature; James Sallis on the Collected Stories of Patricia Highsmith.

 

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Machine Politics 
CHANGING THE WAY WE VOTE IS MORE URGENT—AND LESS COMPLICATED—THAN YOU THINK
STEPHEN ANSOLABEHERE
RESPONSES FROM LLOYD CUTLER & ROBERT MICHEL, ROGERS M. SMITH, DONNA BRAZILE, DAVID C. KING, DANIEL R. ORTIZ, E. JOSHUA ROSENKRANZ, ROBERT RICHIE, HEATHER GERKEN, MICKEY EDWARDS, MARC STRASSMAN, AND ROBERT RICHIE. STEPHEN ANSOLABEHERE REPLIES.

Interview

What’s Wrong with Missile Defense
An interview with Ted Postol
Joshua Cohen
Fiction
Uncle Jake and the Caped Crusaders
Mary Hanna
New Fiction Forum
Alfred Nobel and His Prizes
The troubled history of literature’s “gold standard”
James Campbell
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
James Sallis
Robert Clark, Love Among the Ruins
Tom Bissell
Poetry
Fourth Annual Poetry Contest Winner: D. A. Powell
Introduced by Carl Phillips
Poet’s Sampler: Robert Fitterman
Introduced by Bruce Andrew
Right down to the melody of rain…
Karen Zusman
Lust for Life
James Tate
Sonnet Macaronic
Jennifer Scappettone
Seaweeds
Laurie Sheck
Towards Lethargy: A Solo for One Vice
Brett Fletcher Lauer
The Attention Lesson
P.F. Potvin
Zombie Sunday
Joshua Bell
A Quick One Before I Go (November 14)
David Lehman
On Film
Zhang Yimou’s Long Road Home
The odyssey of China’s premier director
Alan A. Stone

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