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April/May 2000

Lawrence Wittner, Vadislav Zubok, Jonathan Schell, Sergey Rogov, and Randall Forsberg on nuclear disamarment. Martha Nussbaum on feminism and privacy. John Alcock on what Stephen Jay Gould gets wrong about the evolution of behavior. Tom Bissell on why literary success is a matter of chance, not destiny; Jill Eisenstadt on Joyce Carol Oates’s Marilyn Monroe. Plus, Richard Howard reviews Heather McHugh; fiction by Jarda Cervenka, poetry by Charles Simic and Charles Bernstein, and more.

 

The Nuclear Danger and How to Stop It
Reagan and Nuclear Disarmament
How the Nuclear Freeze movement forced Reagan to make progress on arms control
Lawrence S. Wittner
Gorbachev’s Nuclear Learning
How the Soviet leader became a nuclear abolitionist
Vladislav M. Zubo
The Second Age of Nuclear Danger
Did the end of the Cold War mean the end of arms control?
Jonathan Schell
Old Treaties, New World
To reduce the nuclear danger, we must modernize arms control
Sergey Rogov
Eliminating the Danger
What can we do to prevent a nuclear catastrophe?
Randall Forsberg
Essays
Misbehavior
Stephen Jay Gould is wrong about evolution
John Alcock
Is Privacy Bad for Women?
What the Indian constitutional tradition can teach about sex equality
Martha Nussbaum
Fiction
Salima on the Governor’s Bed
Jarda Cervenka
New Fiction Forum
Why literary success is a product of chance, not destiny
Tom Bissell
Peter Gadol, Light at Dusk and Robert C.S. Downs, The Fifth Season
Randall Curb
Jill Eisenstadt
Roger Boylan
Lucinda Rosenfeld
Reviews
Heather McHugh, The Father of the Predicaments
Richard Howard
Peter Sacks, O Wheel
Donald Revell
Lynn Emanuel, Then, Suddenly—
Barbara Fischer
Lee Ann Brown, Polyverse
Jena Osman, The Character
Brian Lennon
Microreviews
Nonfiction Microreviews
Poetry
Poet’s Sampler: Joanna Klink
Introduced by Allen Grossman
Race
Elizabeth Alexander
Night Picnic
Charles Simic
Three Women Then a Still Life
Gillian Conole
Not a Cloud in the Sky
Cort Day
Mouth
Cort Day
Stele for Lost Time
Charles Bernstein
Brave Faces
Kathleen McGookey
The Crime
Darryl Phelps
Letter to Artaud
Tomaž Šalamun
On Film
Shakespeare’s Tarantino Play
Julie Taymor’s Titus
Alan A. Stone

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