Forum: Realizing Labor Standards
Archon Fung, Dara O’Rourke, and Charles Sabel
With responses from Robin Broad, Pranab Bardhan, Mark Levinson, Kaushik Basu, David Moberg, Heather White, Guy Standing, and Ian Ayres. Fung, O’Rourke, and Sabel reply.
Two Travelers
James Longenbach
A Guidebook to The Afterlife
John Gallaher
A Guidebook to When Things Were Better
John Gallaher
Because
Mark Irwin
Happy World
Marjorie Perloff
A Comedy with Animals
Alane Salierno Mason
The Lecturer’s Tale
Eliza Nichols
Reviewed:
The Lecturer’s Tale
by James Hynes. Picador, 2001.
Kingdom of Shadows
Lev Raphael
Reviewed:
Kingdom of Shadows
by Alan Furst. Random House, 2000.
Gob’s Grief
Drake P. Bennett
Reviewed:
Gob’s Grief
by Chris Adrian. Broadway Books, 2001.
No Happy Endings
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Caliban’s Orchestra
John Corey
Poet’s Sampler
Brenda Hillman introduces Orides Fontela, trans. Chris Daniels
Credit the Director
Alan A. Stone
Closer
Deborah W. Pattillo
Vale
Deborah W. Pattillo
One Night a Year
Kate Small
Love Song and Magnificat (O Short Prince)
Patricia Goedicke
Poetry
Reviewed:
Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri, trans. W. S. Merwin. Knopf, 2000.
Utopic
by Claudia Keelan. Alice James Books, 2000.
Civilian Histories
by Lee Upton. University of Georgia Press, 2000.
Regions of Unlikeness: Explaining Contemporary Poetry
by Thomas Gardner. University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Poetic Culture: Contemporary American Poetry Between Community and Institution
by Christopher Beach. Northwestern University Press, 1999.
Prose
Reviewed:
The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. Beacon Press, 2000.
Microcosms
by Claudio Magris, trans. Iain Halliday. Harvill, 2001.
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Selected Poems
by Fanny Howe. University of California Press, 2000.
The Selected Poems of Max Jacob
by Max Jacob, trans. William Kulik. Oberlin College Press, 1999.
Carolina Ghost Woods
by Judy Jordan. Louisiana State University, 2000.
New Addresses
by Kenneth Koch. Knopf, 2000.
House Made of Silver
by Elizabeth Robinson. Kelsey Street Press, 2000.
Feast
by Tomaž Šalamun, edited by Charles Simic. Harcourt, 2000.
Plasticville
by David Trinidad. Turtle Point Press, 2000.
Lucid Suitcase
by Diane Wald. Red Hen Press, 1999.
Chomsky on MisEducation
by Noam Chomsky, edited by Donald Macedo. Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan’s First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics
by Matthew Dallek. Free Press, 2000.
One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
by Thomas Frank. Doubleday, 2000.
American Project: The Rise & Fall of a Modern Ghetto
by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. Harvard University Press, 2000.
