Forum: A New Urban Agenda

Daniel D. Luria and Joel Rogers

With responses from J. Phillip Thompson, Myron Orfield, Richard A. Feldman, and Margaret Weir. Luria and Rogers reply.

Like God,

Lynn Emanuel

Herodotus Goes to Hollywood

Alan A. Stone

Can We Control Disease?

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Reviewed:

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

by Laurie Garrett. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux/Penguin, 1994.

Poet’s Sampler

Paul Hoover introduces Carolyn Koo

Calibrations of Latitude

Harry Matthews

Forum: Is Darwin in the Details?

With responses from Michael Behe, Phillip E. Johnson, David Berlinski, Jerry A. Coyne, Russell F. Doolittle, Douglas J. Futuyma, Robert DiSilvestro, Michael Ruse, James A. Shapiro, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett. Robert Berwick replies.

Papyrus

Eamon Grennan

[these moves were not acquired overnight. . . .]

Douglas Powell

Du Bois for the 90s

Ira Katznelson

Reviewed:

When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor

by William Julius Wilson. Knopf, 1996.

Spring Tonic

Amy Gerstler


Books

Poetry

Reviewed:

Angel, Interrupted

by Reginald Shepherd. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

Strange Relation

by Daniel Hall. Viking Penguin Poets Series, 1996.

Ballad of the Blood: Poems of Maria Elena Cruz Varela

translated and edited by Mairym Cruz-Bernal with Deborah Digges. Ecco Press, 1996.

Prose

Reviewed:

The Emigrants

by W. G. Sebald, translated by Michael Hulse. New Directions, 1997.

Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot

by Michael Rogin. University of California Press, 1996.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Summer Mystagogia

by Bruce Beasley. University Press of Colorado, 1996.

The Cage of Age

by William Bronk. Talisman House, 1996.

Poetry of the American West: A Columbia Anthology

edited by Alison Hawthorne Deming. Columbia University Press, 1996.

Liar, Jones

by Maggie Hannan. Bloodaxe/Dufour Editions, 1995.

Shift

by Jeredith Merrin. University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Minding the Sun

by Robert Pack. University of Chicago Press, 1996.

The Marriage in the Trees

by Stanley Plumley. Ecco Press, 1997.

The Iliad of Homer

translated by Alexander Pope and edited by Steven Shankman. Penguin Classics, 1996.

Wise Poison

by David Rivard. Graywolf Press, 1996.

Written Reaction: Poetics Politics Polemics (1979-1995)

by Eliot Weinberger. Marsilio Publishers, 1996.

The Togakushi Legend Murders

by Yasuo Uchida, translated by David J. Selis. Charles E. Tuttle, 1994.

Remembering Anna O.: A Century of Mystification

by Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen. Routledge, 1996.

Veronica

by Nicholas Christopher. Avon Books, 1997.

From Three Worlds

edited by Ed Hogan, with Askold Melnyczuk, Michael Naydan, Mykola Riabchuk & Oksana Zabuzhko. Zephyr Press, 1996.

Volcano and Miracle

by Gustaw Herling. Viking Press, 1997.

Brand

by Henrik Ibsen. Penguin Classics, 1997.

The Fate of a Gesture

by Carter Ratcliffe. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1996.

Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, The Father of Hate Radio

by Donald Warren. Free Press, 1996.

Corruption

by Tahar Ben Jelloun. New Press, 1995.