Forum: The Case for Binationalism

Lama Abu-Odeh

With responses from Helena Cobban, Leonard Fein, Louis Michael Seidman, Ian S. Lustick, Ebrahim Moosa, Efraim Karsh, Jerome M. Segal, and Salim Tamari. Lama Abu-Odeh replies.

Sound and Sentience

Nathaniel Mackey

From the Book of the Boot

Jeanne Marie Beaumont

Fortune Cookies

Dorothea Tanning

Home Fires

Manini Nayar

The Territory of Trauma

Joyce Hackett

Paula Fox

Randall Curb

Reviewed:

Poor George

by Paula Fox. W. W. Norton, 2001.

Desperate Characters

by Paula Fox. W. W. Norton, 1999.

The Widow’s Children

by Paula Fox. W. W. Norton, 1999.

Of a Pressing Nature

Geoffrey G. O’Brien

Ascension Provisos 1–5

Andrew Zawacki

Poet’s Sampler

Rae Armantrout introduces Catherine Wagner

The Place of Tolerance in Islam

Khaled Abou El Fadl

Boundary Fencing and Telstra Wire

Coral Hull

What Comes After Welfare Reform?

J. Larry Brown and Larry W. Beeferman

Absurd Humanism

Alan A. Stone

Head

Peter Sacks

Poetry

Reviewed:

Anthology of Twentieth-Century Irish and British Poetry

edited by Keith Tuma. Oxford University Press, 2001.

If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000

by Ann Lauterbach. Penguin Poets, 2001.

Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis

by Bruce Andrews. Northwestern University Press, 1996.

The Language of Inquiry

by Lyn Hejinian. University of California Press, 2000.

Prose

Reviewed:

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail

by Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi. Hyperion, 2001.

Press Conference (January 9)

David Lehman

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Collected Poems 1951-1971

by A. R. Ammons. W. W. Norton, 2001.

Worldly Hopes

by A. R. Ammons. W. W. Norton, 1982.

First Life

by Burt Kimmelman. Jensen/Daniels, 2000.

Everlasting Quail

by Sam Witt. Middlebury College, 2001.

Reft and Light

by Ernst Jandl. Burning Deck, 2000.

Animal Soul

by Bob Hicok. Invisible Cities Press, 2001.

They Can’t Take That Away from Me

by Gail Mazur. University of Chicago Press, 2001.

The Annotated “Here” and Selected Poems

by Marjorie Welish. Coffee House Press, 2000.

Darling

by Honor Moore. Grove Press, 2001.

Terrain Vague

by Richard Meier. Verse Press, 2000.

The Crafty Reader

by Robert Scholes. Yale University Press, 2001.

A Moral Temper: The Letters of Dwight Macdonald

edited by Michael Wreszin. Ivan R. Dee, 2001.

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

by John J. Mearsheimer. W. W. Norton, 2001.

Two Faces of Liberalism

by John Gray. New Press, 2000.

What’s Love Got to Do with It? A Critical Look at American Charity

by David Wagner. New Press, 2001.

Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics

by Edward Teller with Judith Shoolery. Perseus Books, 2001.