Reviving Unions

Steven Lerner

A Better Democracy, A Better Economy

Adam Przeworski

Healing America, Body and Soul

Arthur Waskow

Talking to Little Birdies

Charles Simic

Seasonal

Karen Volkman

Through an Opening Door

Mark Wunderlich

Maine Light

Alan Lightman

Othello

Alan A. Stone

The Tooth

Sophie Cabot Black

Poet’s Sampler

Edward Hirsch introduces S. X. Rosenstock

Spreading the Nationalist Virus

Michael Montgomery

Reviewed:

Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation

by Laura Silber and Allan Little. TV Books Inc./Viking Press, 1996.


Books

Democratic Detective

Scott Sherman

Reviewed:

An Easy Thing

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Penguin, 1990.

Four Hands

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Picador USA, 1995.

Leonardo’s Bicycle

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Mysterious Press, 1995.

Life Itself

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Mysterious Press, 1994.

No Happy Ending

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Mysterious Press, 1993.

The Shadow of the Shadow

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Penguin, 1992.

Some Clouds

by Paco Ignacio Taibo II. Penguin, 1992.

Calamities

Linda Gregg

Fiction

Reviewed:

Leaving Las Vegas

by John O’Brien. Grove Press, 1995.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Knopf, 1995.

Closer to the Sun

by Peter Gadol. Picador USA/St. Martin’s Press, 1996.

Poetry

Reviewed:

Atlantis

by Mark Doty. HarperPerennial, 1995.

At Passages

by Michael Palmer. New Directions, 1995.

Doubles

by Robert Polito. University of Chicago Press, 1995.

We Love You

Michael Jay McClure

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Neither World

by Ralph Angel. Miami University Press, 1995.

The Spirit Level

by David Barber. TriQuarterly Books, 1995.

So It Goes

by Eamon Grennan. Graywolf Press, 1995.

Corvus

by Anselm Hollo. Coffee House Press, 1995.

An Early Afterlife

by Linda Pastan. W. W. Norton, 1996.

Dark Fields of the Republic

by Adrienne Rich. W. W. Norton, 1995.

Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry, Volume One: From Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude

by Jerome Rothenberg. University of California Press, 1995.

The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham

by Helen Vendler. Harvard University Press, 1995.

The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition

by Helen Vendler. Harvard University Press, 1995.

Cross Channel

by Julian Barnes. Knopf, 1996.

Darkness and a Little Light

by Johannes Bobrowski, trans. Leila Vennewitz. New Directions, 1993.

Levin’s Mill

by Johannes Bobrowski, trans. Janet Cropper. New Directions, 1996.

John’s Wife

by Robert Coover. Simon & Schuster, 1996.

The Kingdom of Babylon Shall Not Come Against You

by George Garrett. Harcourt Brace, 1996.

Thomas Mann: Eros and Literature

by Anthony Heilbut. Knopf, 1996.

The Blue Devils of Nada

by Albert Murray. Pantheon, 1996.

The Seven League Boots

by Albert Murray. Pantheon, 1995.

Terrors and Experts

by Adam Phillips. Harvard University Press, 1996.