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.