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April/May 2001

A forum on faith and politics with Eva Thorne, Eugene Rivers, Lani Guinier, Alan Wolfe, Julianne Malveaux, Manning Marable, and others. Susie Linfield on photojournalism. William Scheuerman on the complicated legacy of Carl Schmitt. Bill Marx on the kinky modernism of Alberto Moravia; James Crumley remembers Richard Yates. Plus, fiction by Pauls Toutonghi; poetry by Brenda Hillman, Paul Hoover, and Pattie McCarthy; Corey Robin on Arno Mayer, microreviews, and more.

 

Forum 

Faith in Politics? 
WHY BLACK AMERICA NEEDS A NEW POLITICS—AND HOW THE BLACK CHURCH MIGHT DELIVER ONE
EVA T. THORNE AND EUGENE F. RIVERS III
RESPONSES FROM LANI GUINIER, CATHY J. COHEN, J. PHILLIP THOMPSON, RONALD J. SIDER, ALAN WOLFE, JULIANNE MALVEAUX, ELLEN WILLIS, PETER DREIER, AND MANNING MARABLE. THORNE AND RIVERS REPLY.
Essays
Capture the Moment
Uses and misuses of photojournalism
Susie Linfield
Down on Law
Carl Schmitt’s complicated legacy
William Scheuerman
Fiction
Homecoming
Pauls Toutonghi
New Fiction Forum
The Kingdom of Moravia
Alberto Moravia’s kinky, subversive realism is back in print
Bill Marx
Allegra Goodman, Paradise Park
Joyce Hackett
Laura Glen Louis, Talking in the Dark
Randall Curb
Clare Boylan, Beloved Stranger
Jennifer Howard
Hugh Nissenson, The Song of the Earth
Roger Boylan
The Last Gentleman
A friend and student remembers Richard Yates
James Crumley
Nonfiction Review
Arno Mayer, The Furies
Corey Robin
Poetry Reviews
Franz Wright, The Beforelife
Ethan Paquin
The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry
Edited by Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton
Tina Barr
Michael Palmer, The Promises of Glass
Andrew Zawacki
Joe Wenderoth, Letters to Wendy’s
John D’Agata
Microreviews
Poetry
Poet’s Sampler: Pattie McCarthy
Introduced by Cole Swensen
The Dream Salon
Katherine Soniat
Sonnet
Charles North
Wild Goose Chase
Sarah Manguso
Eidetic
Harriet Zinnes
The Bedbug Variations
Spencer Short
from Mr. Bondo’s Unshared Life
James Cervantes
Half the Half-Nocturnes
Brenda Hillman
the noise of time
David Antin
The Task
Paul Hoover
On Film
Political Football
Roger Donaldson’s Thirteen Days
Alan A. Stone

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