Forum: In the National Interest
Stephen M. Walt
With responses from Richard Falk, Joseph S. Nye Jr., Ervand Abrahamian, Khalil Shikaki, Naomi Chazan, Robert Vickers Jr., Mahmood Mamdani, John Tirman, lvo Daalder, James Lindsay, Mary Kaldor, and Anne-Marie Slaughter.
Sunday Afternoon
Stephen Berg
Hungry for Air
Deborah Stone
The Blemish of Conquest
Martin van Creveld
The Good Empire
Vivek Chibber
Reviewed:
Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire
by Niall Ferguson. Penguin Press, 2005.
Cloud of Witnesses
G. C. Waldrop
Cold War Casualties
Neta C. Crawford
Reviewed:
Cold War Triumphalism
ed. Ellen Schrecker. New Press, 2004.
Corridor
Honor Moore
American Soup
Claudio Lomnitz
Reviewed:
Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity
by Samuel Huntington. Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Disparu
Honor Moore
Truth in Numbers
Stephen Ansolabhere and Charles Stewart III
My Good Man
Eric Gansworth
No Dream
James Longenbach
New Jews from the Old Country
Val Vinokur
Reviewed:
Natasha and Other Stories
by David Bezmosgis. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2004.
The Place Will Comfort You
by Naama Goldstein. Scribner, 2004.
Scream Queens of the Dead Sea
by Gilad Elbom. Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2004.
The Russian Debutante’s Handbook
by Gary Shteyngart. Riverhead Books, 2002.
There Are Jews in My House
by Lara Vapnyar. Pantheon, 2003.
Love Poem
Danielle Pieratti
Longing for God
Darcey Steinke
Poet’s Sampler
Lisa Jarnot introduces Stacy Szymaszek
Strange Relations
DeSales Harrison
Reviewed:
March Book
by Jesse Ball. Grove Press, 2004.
The Clerk’s Tale
by Spencer Reece. Mariner Books, 2004.
Facts for Visitors
by Srikanth Reddy. University of California Press, 2004.
An Unillusioned Life
Stephen Burt
Reviewed:
Collected Poems
by Donald Justice. Knopf, 2004.
The Ethics of Language
Alan Gilbert
Reviewed:
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
by Claudia Rankine. Graywolf Press, 2004.
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
What Animal
by Oni Buchanan. University of Georgia Press, 2003.
Matter
by Bin Ramke. University of Iowa Press, 2004.
Otherhood
by Reginald Shepherd. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.
Goest
by Cole Swensen. Alice James Books, 2004.
saints & or: notes in the form of sonnets (millay effects)
Michael Farrell
For God and Country
Alan A. Stone