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April/May 2002

Crime and Punishment

Crime, punishment, and the limits of law, with essays by Helena Cobban, Bernard Harcourt, and Loïc Wacquant. Hugo Adam Bedau reviews recent books on capital punishment. Stephen Burt on Rae Armantrout’s poetry of suspicion. James Campbell examines the case of Jonathan Franzen and Oprah’s Book Club; Drake Bennett surveys the novels of Howard Norman. Fiction by Ryan G. Van Cleave. Poems by Nicholas Laughlin, Rae Armantrout, Carmen Giminez-Rosello, and others.

 

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Crime and Punishment
The Legacies of Collective Violence
The Rwandan genocide and the limits of law
Helena Cobban
Policing Disorder
Can we reduce serious crime by punishing petty offenses?
Bernard Harcourt
Deadly Symbiosis
Rethinking race and imprisonment in America
Loïc Wacquant
Fiction
One Last Thing
Ryan G. Van Cleave
New Fiction Forum
High Art in the Age of Oprah
When popular culture meets grand literary ambition: the case of Jonathan Franzen
James Campbell
Howard Norman’s Canadian Trilogy
Drake Bennett
Poetry
Grand Cascade
Clayton Eshleman
Uncanny Earth, A Funny Thing to Feel
Joshua Green
“not (as though, at last”
Nicholas Laughlin
“what first unfurled”
Nicholas Laughlin
13th Street Is Not called 13th Street. It’s Called Baughman.
Edward Mycue
Poltergeist House Eclogue
John Kinsella
Poet’s Sampler: Emily Wilson
Introduced by James Galvin
The Fit
Rae Armantrout
Seconds
Rae Armantrout
The Walk
Carmen Gimenez-Rosello
Pillow Talk
Carmen Gimenez-Rosello
house/boat
Julie Carr
On Film
A Beautiful Illusion
John Nash and the Hollywood romance with mental illness
Alan A. Stone

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