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.