Forum: The Daily We

Cass R. Sunstein

With responses from Jay Rosen, Simson Garfinkel, Michael Schudson, Ronald N. Jacobs, Shanto Iyengar, Henry Jenkins, and Robert W. McChesney. Sunstein replies.

An Inner Life for Dummies

Lisa Beskin

One for the Guys

Liam Rector

Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear

Peter Gizzi

Nationalism in Exile

John Tirman

Butter and Eggs

Harry Matthews

Secret Histories

Santiago Gamboa, trans. Rafael Reyes-Ruiz

A Genius Made

Corinna Vallianatos

By the Sea

Patrick Erouart-Siad

Reviewed:

By the Sea

by Abdulrazak Gurnah. New Press, 2001.

Leithauser and Unsworth

James Sallis

Reviewed:

A Few Corrections

by Brad Leithauser. Knopf, 2001.

The Partnership

by Barry Unsworth. W. W. Norton, 2001.

The Rights of Desire

Roger Boylan

Reviewed:

The Rights of Desire

by André Brink. Harcourt Brace, 2001.

Poet’s Sampler

C. D. Wright introduces Sam Truitt

Becoming Literature

Stephen Burt

Reviewed:

Collected Poems

by James Merrill, edited by J. D. McClatchy and Stephen Yenser. Knopf, 2001.

Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson

by Alison Lurie. Viking, 2001.

Boy at the Border of His Own Allegory

Lucie Brock-Broido

Cyril Method

Craig Dworkin

Among Enemies?

Gopal Balakrishnan and William Scheuerman

No Defense

Alan A. Stone

Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil

Peter Gizzi

Monkey Sí

Manuel Muñoz

Poetry

Reviewed:

Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992

by Gjertrud Schnackenberg. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2000.

The Throne of Labdacus

by Gjertrud Schnackenberg. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001.

Revenants

by Mark Nowak. Coffee House Press, 2000.

Comp.

by Kevin Davies. Edge Books, 2000.

Invisible Tender

by Jennifer Clarvoe. Fordham University Press, 2000.

Paramour

by Stacy Doris. Krupskaya Press, 2000.

They Are Sleeping

by Joanna Klink. University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Prose

Reviewed:

Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right

by Lisa McGirr. Princeton University Press, 2001.

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

by Rick Perlstein. Hill and Wang, 2001.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Poemas/Poems

by Gerardo Deniz, trans. Mónica de la Torre. Ditoria/Lost Roads Publishers, 2000.

Brutal Imagination

by Cornelius Eady. Putnam/Marian Wood, 2001.

The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain

by Han Shan, trans. Red Pine. Copper Canyon Press, 2000.

Smashing the Piano

by John Montague. Wake Forest University Press, 2001.

A Paradise of Poets

by Jerome Rothenberg. New Directions, 1999.

A Fly in the Soup: Memoirs

by Charles Simic. University of Michigan Press, 2000.

The Other Lover

by Bruce Smith. University of Chicago Press, 2000.

The Cherokee Lottery

by William Jay Smith. Curbstone Press, 2000.

Trilce

by César Vallejo, trans. Clayton Eshleman. Wesleyan University, 2000.

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

by Herbert P. Bix. HarperCollins, 2000.

Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

by David W. Blight. Belknap Press, 2001.

Banvard’s Folly

by Paul Collins. Picador, 2001.

The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost across the Boundary Line

by Susan Eaton. Yale University Press, 2001.

Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books

by H. J. Jackson. Yale University Press, 2001.

A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950

by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.