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December 1998/January 1999

A debate on the origins and future of egalitarianism, led by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, with responses by Philippe Van Parijs, Robert Haveman, Nancy Folbre, and others. Günter Grass on Turkish novelist Yaşar Kemal. Jeff Gates on expanding ownership of capital; Shiv Visvanathan and Jay R. Mandle debate economic development. Plus, fiction by Short Story Contest winner Jacob M. Appel; Edwin Frank reviews W. G. Sebald; poetry by Bill Knott and Richard Howard, and more.

 

Forum 

Is Equality in Our Nature? 
WELFARE REFORM AND THE FUTURE OF EGALITARIAN POLITICS
SAMUEL BOWLES AND HERBERT GINTIS
RESPONSES FROM MARTIN GILENS, ROBERT HAVEMAN, PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS, STEVEN M. TELES, RUY TEIXEIRA, DAVID SLOAN WILSON, STEVEN N. DURLAUF, NANCY FOLBRE, STUART WHITE, KRISTIN MONROE, SUSAN E. MAYER, AND KEVIN MCCABE AND VERNON SMITH. BOWLES AND GINTIS REPLY.

Essays

What’s Not in a Name?
The false intimacy of first names
Neil Shister
In Praise of Yaşar Kemal
A tribute to Turkey’s preeminent novelist
Günter Grass
The Ownership Solution
A better way to share the wealth
Jeff Gates
Skirmishes
Battling cystic fibrosis
Rosemary Quigley
Forces of Civility
The NGO revolution and the search for peace
John Tirman 
Exchange
Development—but at What Cost?
Shiv Visvanathan and Jay R. Mandle
Fiction
Shell Game with Organs
Winner of the Sixth Annual Short Story Contest
Jacob M. Appel
Fiction and Nonfiction Reviews
W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
Translated by Michael Hulse
Edwin Frank
Microreviews
Poetry Reviews
Charles Wright, Appalachia
James Longenbach
Ann Lauterbach, On a Stair
Andrew Osborn
Ann Carson, Autobiography of Red
Elizabeth Macklin
D. A. Powell, Tea
Heather Ramsdell, Lost Wax
Sam Truitt, Anamorphosis Eisenhower
Bin Ramke
Microreviews
Poetry
Poet’s Sampler: Brenda Shaughnessy
Introduced by Richard Howard
Jersey City Palms
Gilbert Sorrentino
Dearth Demise
Bill Knott
December 14
David Lehman
Borrowed Love Poems
John Yau
Dorothea Tanning’s Cousins
Richard Howard
St. Ursula’s Origin
Barbara Claire Freeman
January 1
David Lehman
Getting Off Work
Franz Wright
On Film
Governing Passion
Sandra Goldbacher’s The Governess
Alan A. Stone

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