Forum: Is Equality Passé?
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
With responses from Martin Gilens, Robert Haveman, Philippe Van Parijs, Steven M. Teles, Ruy Teixeira, David Sloan Wilson, Steven N. Durlauf, Nancy Folbre, Stuart White, Kristen Monroe, Susan E. Mayer, and Kevin McCabe and Vernon Smith. Bowles and Gintis reply.
Jersey City Palms
Gilbert Sorrentino
Dearth Demise
Bill Knott
What’s in a Name?
Neil Shister
In Praise of Yasar Kemal
Günter Grass, trans. Mark Harman
Poet’s Sampler
Richard Howard introduces Brenda Shaughnessy
The Ownership Solution
Jeff Gates
December 14
David Lehman
Borrowed Love Poems
John Yau
Shell Game with Organs
Jacob M. Appel
Governing Passion
Alan A. Stone
Skirmishes
Rosemary Quigley
Dorothea Tanning’s Cousins
Richard Howard
Development, Yes—but at What Cost?
Shiv Visvanathan and Jay R. Mandle
St. Ursula’s Origin
Barbara Claire Freeman
Forces of Civility
John Tirman
January 1
David Lehman
Getting Off Work
Franz Wright
Poetry
Reviewed:
Appalachia
by Charles Wright. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998.
On a Stair
by Ann Lauterbach. Penguin Poets, 1997.
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
by Anne Carson. Knopf, 1998.
Tea
by D. A. Powell. Wesleyan University Press, 1998.
Lost Wax
by Heather Ramsdell. University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Anamorphosis Eisenhower
by Sam Truitt. Lost Roads Publishers, 1998.
Prose
Reviewed:
The Rings of Saturn
by W. G. Sebald, trans. Michael Hulse. New Directions, 1998.
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Wakefulness
by John Ashbery. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998.
Placebo Effects
by Jeanne Marie Beaumont. W. W. Norton, 1997.
Primate Behavior
by Sarah Lindsay. Grove Press, 1997.
Threshold
by James Longenbach. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Modern Poetry after Modernism
by James Longenbach. Oxford University Press, 1997.
The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995
by Michael Palmer. New Directions, 1998.
Noon
by Cole Swensen. Sun & Moon Press, 1997.
Dark Sky Question
by Larissa Szporluk. Beacon Press, 1998.
The Ladies from St. Petersburg
by Nina Berberova, trans. Marian Schwartz. New Directions, 1998.
Like Never Before
by Ehud Havazelet. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998.
Mayhem: Violence as Public Entertainment
by Sissela Bok. Addison-Wesley, 1998.
Unified Field Theory
by Frank Soos. University of Georgia Press, 1998.
House of the Winds
by Mia Yun. Interlink Books, 1998.
The Long Falling
by Keith Ridgway. Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
The Love of a Good Woman
by Alice Munro. Knopf, 1998.
