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February/March 2001

A debate on international labor standards with Archon Fung, Dara O’Rourke, Charles Sabel, Robin Broad, Pranab Bardhan, David Moberg, Ian Ayres, and others. Marjorie Perloff on the happy world of Lyn Hejinian. Alane S. Mason on Hemingway; Eliza Nichols on The Lecturer’s Tale; Lev Raphael on Alan Furst. Plus, Robin Blackburn revisits the revolutionary Atlantic, contest-winning fiction from Kate Small, poetry by Patricia Goedicke, Joshua Corey, and Orides Fontela.

 

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Stepping Up Labor Standards
HOW TRANSPARENCY, COMPETITION, AND SANCTIONS COULD IMPROVE WORKING CONDITIONS WORLDWIDE
ARCHON FUNG, DARA O’ROURKE, AND CHARLES SABEL
RESPONSES FROM ROBIN BROAD, PRANAB BARDHAN, MARK LEVINSON, KAUSHIK BASU, DAVID MOBERG, HEATHER WHITE, GUY STANDING, AND IAN AYRES. FUNG, O’ROURKE, AND SABEL REPLY.

Essay

Happy World
What Lyn Hejinian’s poetry tells us about chance, fortune, and pleasure
Marjorie Perloff 
Fiction
One Night a Year
Co-winner of the Eighth Annual Short Story Contest
Kate Small
New Fiction Forum
A Comedy with Animals
Ernest Hemingway, Jane Kendall Mason, and “The Short Happy Life of Frances Macomber”
Alane Salierno Mason
James Hynes, The Lecturer’s Tale
Eliza Nichols
Alan Furst, Kingdom of Shadows
Lev Raphael
Chris Adrian, Gob’s Grief
Drake Bennett
Poetry
Poet’s Sampler: Orides Fontela
Introduced by Brenda Hillman
Two Travelers
James Longenbach
A Guidebook to When Things Were Better
John Gallaher
A Guidebook to The Afterlife
John Gallaher
Because
Mark Irwin
Caliban’s Orchestra
Joshua Corey
Closer
Deborah W. Pattillo
Vale
Deborah W. Pattillo
Love Song and Magnificat (O Short Prince)
Patricia Goedicke
On Film
Credit the Director
Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark
Alan A. Stone

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