Forum: The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack

Regina Austin, Selwyn Cudjoe, bell hooks, Randall Kennedy, and Eugene Rivers, moderated by Margaret Burnham

The Poverty of Reason

Glenn C. Loury

Interstate 7

Stephen Dixon

The Last Days of Bosnia?

Ivo Banac talks with Rabia Ali and Lawrence Lifschultz

Psyché and the Palace of Love

Yves Bonnefoy, translated by Lisa Sapinkopf

A Strange Hybrid

Svetlana Boym

Reinventing the Welfare State

Nancy Fraser

Butterfly Chair

Fred Marchant

Poet’s Sampler

Jorie Graham introduces Joshua Clover

The Piano

Alan A. Stone

Brief Reviews

Reviewed:

Moloch, Or, This Gentile World

by Henry Miller. Grove Press, 1992.

Remembering Babylon

by David Malouf. Pantheon, 1993.

The Fourth Dimension

by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Peter Green and Beverly Bardsley. Princeton University Press, 1993.

Honey: Stories

by Elizabeth Tallent. Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

A History of Male Nudes in America

by Dianne Nelson. University of Georgia Press, 1993.

Aunt Toni’s Heart

Rafael Campo


Readers’ Forum

On Intervention

Letters from Thomas Harrison and Thomas G. Weiss

Is There a Right to Be Homeless?

Letters from Harry Simon, Benjamin Waxman, Mark Sidran, David Wagner, and Vivian Rothstein