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.