Forum: The Case for Proportional Representation
Robert Richie and Steven Hill
With responses from Rep. Cynthia McKinney, John Ferejohn, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Gary W. Cox, Daniel Cantor, Ross Mirkarimi, Anthony, Thigpenn, and Pamela S. Karlan. Richie and Hill reply.
Poems from The Floor of the Mall
Anne Doolittle
Victims and Agents
Martha C. Nussbaum
I Will, I Will Not
Kirk Nesset
Poet’s Sampler
Heather McHugh introduces Martha Zweig
Henry James at the Movies
Alan A. Stone
The Ceremony of Opening the Mouth and the Eyes
Forrest Gander
Discretionary Income
Brian Henry
The Magnolia Street Commune
Vivian Rothstein
Two Stories
Paul Deppler
The Barge
Stephen Dizon
Why Do We Cooperate?
Herbert Gintis and H. Allen Orr
It’s a Small Design, Frost
Tom Thompson
Poetry
Reviewed:
Memory at These Speeds: New and Collected Poems
by Jane Miller. Copper Canyon Press, 1996.
Collected Prose
by Charles Olson, edited by Donald Allen and Benjamin Friedlander. University of California Press, 1997.
Crown of Weeds
by Amy Gerstler. Penguin Poets, 1997.
Prose
Reviewed:
Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do
by Lawrence Steinberg, with B. Bradford Brown and Sanford M. Dornbusch. Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Teaching the New Basic Skills: Principles for Educating Children to Thrive in a Changing Economy
by Richard M. Murnane and Frank Levy. Free Press, 1996.
Existentialists and Mystics
by Iris Murdoch, edited by Peter Conradi. Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1997.
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Fear of Blue Skies
by Richard Burgin. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Shopping Cart Soldiers
by John Mulligan. Curbstone Press, 1997.
Solti: Memoirs
by Sir Georg Solti. Knopf, 1997.
Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
by John F. Szwed. Pantheon, 1997.
il cuore: Selected Poems 1970-1995
by Kathleen Fraser. Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1997.
At the Site of Inside Out
by Anna Rabinowitz. University of Massachusetts, 1997.
Candy Necklace
by Calvin Bedient. Wesleyan University Press, 1997.
Letter to an Imaginary Friend
by Thomas McGrath. Copper Canyon Press, 1997.
The Poems of J. V. Cunningham
edited with an introduction by Timothy Steele. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1997.
How Late Desire Looks
by Katrina Roberts. Gibbs Smith, 1997.
Diaries of a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow and Michael Winkler. W. W. Norton, 1997.
Uncollected Poems
by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Edward Snow. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1996.
