Forum: The Future of Affirmative Action

Susan Sturm and Lani Guinier

With responses from Stephen Steinberg, Howard Gardner, Mary C. Waters and Carolyn Boyes-Watson, Paul Osterman, Ward Connerly, Maureen A. Scully and Deborah M. Kolb, Michael J. Piore, Peter Sacks, and Peter Cappelli. Sturm and Guinier reply.

Break Me to Prove I Am Unbroken

Sophie Cabot Black

The Deposition

Carl Phillips

In Memoriam Richard and Yael

Gilbert Sorrentino

The American Jobs Machine

Erik Olin Wright and Rachel Dwyer

Countdown to Pearl String of Planets

Tessa Rumsey

Genre Trouble

James Hynes

Emerson and Wuori

Jennifer Howard

Reviewed:

Loving Graham Greene

by Gloria Emerson. Random House, 2000.

An American Outrage

by G. K. Wuori. Algonquin, 2000.

The Forger

John Marks

Reviewed:

The Forger

by Paul Watkins. Picador, 2000.

The Big Hunger

Rob Spillman

Reviewed:

The Big Hunger: Stories 1932-1959

by John Fante. Black Sparrow Press, 2000.

Weathers

Ben Doyle

Argentina

Laura Hartmark

Poet’s Sampler

John Tranter introduces Kate Lilley

Ethics and Equality

Stuart White

The First Line of My Dissertation

Caroline Crumpacker

My Brother’s Keeper

Alan A. Stone

The Pretty Ones Have Their Uses

Girija Tropp

Bouleversement

Jorie Graham

Prose

Reviewed:

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent

by Lionel Trilling, edited by Leon Wieseltier. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2000.

Poetry

Reviewed:

The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz

by Stanley Kunitz. W. W. Norton, 2000.

A Point Is That Which Has No Part

by Liz Waldner. University of Iowa Press, 2000.

The Kingdom of the Subjunctive

by Suzanne Wise. Alice James Books, 2000.

It Is If I Speak

by Joe Wenderoth. Wesleyan University Press, 2000.

A Knot is Not a Tangle

by Benjamin Friedlander. Krupskaya, 2000.

Karmic Traces

by Eliot Weinberger. New Directions, 2000.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

The World’s Wife

by Carol Ann Duffy. Faber & Faber, 2000.

Point and Line

by Thalia Field. New Directions, 2000.

Love and Scorn

by Carol Frost. TriQuarterly Books, 2000.

Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Book Poems 1969-1999

by Bill Knott. BOA Editions, 2000.

Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry

edited by Timothy Liu. Talisman House, 2000.

Human Nature

by Toby Olson. New Directions, 2000.

Pastoral

by Carl Phillips. Graywolf Press, 2000.

Post Meridian

by Mary Ruefle. Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2000.

The Labor of Development: Workers and the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India

by Patrick Heller. Cornell University Press, 1999.

Global Finance at Risk

by John Eatwell and Lance Taylor. New Press, 2000.

A Darker Ribbon: Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors in the Twentieth Century

by Ellen Leopold. Beacon Press, 1999.

The Consumer Society Reader

edited by Juliet B. Schor and Douglas Holt. New Press, 2000.