Forum: Global Action to Prevent War
Randall Forsberg, Jonathan Dean, and Saul Mendlovitz
With responses from Kosta Tsipis, Mary Kaldor, Alan Cranston, and Lora Lumpe. Forsberg replies.
Channel
Peter Sacks
Election
Peter Sacks
The Car as Hero
Neil Shister
On Pinochet
Paul W. Kahn
A Sudden Rain in the Green Mountains
Stephen Burt
Oprah’s Nightmare
Alan A. Stone
Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes
Joanna Klink
When the Dog Dies
David Mamet
On Becoming an Arab
Leila Ahmed
Poet’s Sampler
Maureen Seaton introduces Joan Cusack Handler
Forum: Sharing the Wealth
Jeff Gates
With responses from Herbert Gintis; William H. Simon; Sewin Chan, Henry Schneider, and Joseph Tracy; and Gar Alperovitz. Gates replies.
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Geoffrey G. O’Brien
Counting the Forests
Mark Levine
The Sound of Music
Lisa C. Beskin
Love for a Fat Man
Rhoda B. Stamell
The Campaign to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal
Loren Goldner
Poetry
Reviewed:
Science and Steepleflower
by Forrest Gander. New Directions, 1998.
There Are Three
by Donald Revell. Wesleyan University Press, 1998.
The Triumph of Love
by Geoffrey Hill. Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
by Helen Vendler. Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1997.
Prose
Reviewed:
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
by Harold Bloom. Riverhead Books, 1998.
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy—Brothers in Arms
by Kai Bird. Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama
by Heinrich von Kleist, trans. Joel Agee. HarperCollins, 1998.
Oulipo Compendium
edited by Harry Matthews and Alastair Brotchie. Atlas Publishers, 1998.
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Canaan
by Geoffrey Hill. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Oblivion: On Writers & Writing
by Donald Justice. Story Line Press, 1998.
Dura
by Myung Mi Kim. Sun & Moon Press, 1998.
Human Rights
by Joseph Lease. Zoland Books, 1998.
After All
by William Matthews. Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
The Captain of the Butterflies
by Cees Nooteboom, trans. Leonard Nathan and Herlinde Spahr. Sun & Moon Press, 1997.
How to Do Things with Words
by Joan Retallack. Sun & Moon Press, 1998.
Haiku: This Other World
by Richard Wright, edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert L. Tener. Arcade Publishing, 1998.
Armadillo
by William Boyd. Knopf, 1998.
Central Square
by George Packer. Graywolf Press, 1998.
The Hours
by Michael Cunningham. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998.
Fields of Peace: A Pennsylvania German Album
photographs by George Tice, text by Millen Brand. David R. Godine, 1998.