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February/March 2003

War and Democracy

War and Democracy with John W. Dower, Uday Singh Mehta, Helena Cobban, and Neta C. Crawford. Archon Fung searches for lessons from grass-roots organizing. Tod Marshall examines the lyric verse of Peter Sacks and Donald Revell. Peter Gizzi introduces Aaron Kunin in the Poet’s Sampler.

 

War and Democracy
A Warning from History
Don’t expect democracy in Iraq
John W. Dower
Waiting for War in Damascus
Syria has been opening up. A war will shut it down
Helena Cobban
Nationalism’s Mired Hopes
Partition, Cold War, and the conflict in Kashmir
Uday Singh Mehta
The Best Defense
The problem with Bush’s “preemptive” war doctrine
Neta C. Crawford
Fiction
Sweet
Diane Williams
She Began
Diane Williams
New Fiction Forum
Skirting the Issue
French literature out of touch with social realities
Patrick Erouart-Siad
Maxwell’s Lives
The New Yorker editor who became his own best charge
James Campbell
Nonfiction Reviews
The Politics of Rescue
Debating humanitarian intervention
Carroll Bogert
Can Social Movements Save Democracy?
Lessons from grass-roots organizing
Archon Fung
Microreviews
Poetry Reviews
Celebrating Presence
The lyric poetry of Peter Sacks and Donald Revell
Tod Marshall
Laughter and Oblivion
Dean Young’s Skid
Sarah Manguso
Poetic I.D.’s
John Yau’s Borrowed Love Poems
Thomas Fink
The Uncertainty of Knowing
Carl Phillips’s Rock Harbor
James Longenbach
Microreviews
Poetry
Poet’s Sampler: Aaron Kunin
Introduced by Peter Gizzi
Imaginary Places
Rae Armantrout
As One
Rae Armantrout
La Musica Nova
Susan Davis
Hall of Records
Emily Fragos
A Man, His Dog, and Some Fish: An Aubade
Brian Henry
Portrait
Bill Knott
Poem
Bill Knott
Prothalamion
Timothy Liu
Prothalamion
Timothy Liu
On Film
Reel Terrorism
Reconsidering The Battle of Algiers
Alan A. Stone

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