Forum: Educating a Democracy
Deborah Meier
With responses from Abigail Thernstrom, Bob Chase, Gary B. Nash, Linda Nathan, Richard J. Murnane, William Ayers, and Theodore Sizer. Meier replies.
Highway to English
Suzanne Wise
The Origin of Olive Oyl
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
The Kitchen of Francesca and Paolo
Joshua Corey
In Defense of Poetry
Marjorie Perloff
Rerum Novarum
Gerardo Deniz, trans. Mónica de la Torre
Romulus Augustulus
Gerardo Deniz, trans. Mónica de la Torre
American Faith, American Violence
Michael Greenberg
Western Voices
Laura Hendrie
Reviewed:
Plainsong
by Kent Haruf. Knopf, 1999.
The Tie That Binds
by Kent Haruf. Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1984.
Where You Once Belonged
by Kent Haruf. Summit, 1990.
Voices from the Old Country
Paul Gediman
Reviewed:
Ice Fire Water: A Leib Goldkorn Cocktail
by Leslie Epstein. W. W. Norton, 1999.
If I Told You Once
by Judy Budnitz. Picador USA, 1999.
How Aliens Think
Susan Daitch
Reviewed:
How Aliens Think
by Judith Grossman. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
The Walking Tour
Edwin Frank
Reviewed:
The Walking Tour
by Kathryn Davis. Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Walkin’ the Dog
Peter McCarthy
Reviewed:
Walkin’ the Dog
by Walter Mosley. Little, Brown, & Co., 1999.
Making History
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Poet’s Sampler
Harryette Mullen introduces Julie Patton
The Sublime Beethoven
Dmitri Tymoczko
Purgatorio, Canto XXIX
Dante Alighieri, trans. W. S. Merwin
Real Tax Reform
Edward J. McCaffery
The Artist as Survivor
Alan A. Stone
Regeneration
Pauls Toutonghi
Poetry
Reviewed:
Girls on the Run
by John Ashbery. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1999.
Towards the Blanched Alphabets
by Gustaf Sobin. Talisman House, 1998.
Trappings
by Richard Howard. Turtle Point Press, 1999.
The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets
by David Lehman. Anchor, 1998.
Prose
Reviewed:
The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager
by Thomas Hine. Bard Avon, 1999.
Framing Youth: Ten Myths about the Next Generation
by Mike Males. Common Courage Press, 1998.
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
by Benita Eisler. Knopf, 1999.
Voice-Over
by Elaine Equi. Coffee House Press, 1998.
Vita Nova
by Louise Glück. Ecco Press, 1999.
Things and Flesh
by Linda Gregg. Graywolf Press, 1999.
How Many More of Them Are You?
by Lisa Lubasch. Avec Books, 1999.
In the Pines: Lost Poems 1972-1997
by David St. John. White Pine Press, 1998.
The Red Leaves of Night
by David St. John. Harperflamingo, 1999.
Overtime: Selected Poems
by Philip Whalen. Penguin Putnam, 1999.
On Beauty and Being Just
by Elaine Scarry. Princeton University Press, 1999.
For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today
by Jedediah Purdy. Knopf, 1999.
Republic of Denial: Press, Politics, and Public Life
by Michael Janeway. Yale University Press, 1999.
