Forum: The New Politics of Consumption

Juliet Schor

With responses from Robert H. Frank; James Twitchell; Jack Gibbons; Clair Brown; Betsy Taylor; Douglas B. Holt; Craig J. Thompson; Michèle Lamont and Virág Molnár; and Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and John Schmitt. Schor replies.

Laurie’s House

Jamey Dunham

The Mutiny on the Bounty

Karri Harrison

Deconstructing Stefan, or Destructing Stefan

Emma Straub

At first you don’t succeed

Steven Monte

Primo Levi’s Last Moments

Diego Gambetta

Rainbows

Jesper Svenbro

The Two-Hundred Years War

G. M. Tamás

Happy Jack’s on Our Saturday Morning

Elizabeth Macklin

The Definite Article

Elizabeth Macklin

Poet’s Sampler

David Shapiro introduces Jordan Davis

Identity Politics

Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky

Eric Rohmer’s Canvas

Alan A. Stone

For Whom the Bells Toll

Neil Shister

Saint-Merri

Jesper Svenbro

Duet

Pamela Erens

Poetry

Reviewed:

Shelmalier

by Medbh McGuckian. Wake Forest University Press, 1998.

The Alexandrine Plan

by Ciaran Carson. Wake Forest University Press, 1998.

The Twelfth of Never

by Ciaran Carson. Wake Forest University Press, 1998.

Jackstraws

by Charles Simic. Harcourt Brace, 1999.

The End of the Alphabet

by Claudia Rankine. Grove Press, 1998.

Prose

Reviewed:

Juneteenth: A Novel

by Ralph Ellison, edited by John F. Callahan. Random House, 1999.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Things Are Happening

by Joshua Beckman. American Poetry Review/Copper Canyon Press, 1998.

Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996

by Seamus Heaney. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998.

On Love

by Edward Hirsch. Knopf, 1998.

In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era

edited by J. Kates. Zephyr Press, 1999.

Half Angel, Half Lunch

by Sharon Mesmer. Hard Press, 1999.

Seamus Heaney

by Helen Vendler. Harvard University Press, 1998.

Deepstep Come Shining

by C. D. Wright. Copper Canyon Press, 1998.

Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum

by Martin Malia. Harvard University Press, 1999.

Arcade: Or How to Write a Novel

by Gordon Lish. Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998.

The Secular Mind

by Robert Coles. Princeton University Press, 1999.

Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism

by T. J. Clark. Yale University Press, 1999.

Who’s Irish?

by Gish Jen. Random House, 1999.

If I Should Die: A Death Row Correspondence

edited by Jane Officer. Bob Paul Publishers Consortium, 1999.