The New Face of Unions

Finding Their Voice

Kris Rondeau discusses organizing with Richard Balzer

Restoring the Right to Organize

Larry Cohen

Labor at the Crossroads

Allison Porter and Richard Bensinger

Imagining Unions

Joel Rogers and Charles Sabel


The Rancher

Michael Collier

Comedy and Culture

Alan A. Stone

Layaway

Michael Dorris

Poet’s Sampler

Tom Sleigh introduces Suzanne Qualls

Democracy and the New Information Highway

Mitchell Kapor

Poet’s Sampler

Martín Espada introduces Jack Agüeros

Realization and Recognition: The Art and Life of John Fante

Neil Gordon

Brief Reviews

Reviewed:

The Pugilist at Rest

by Thom Jones. Little, Brown, & Co., 1993.

Jesus’ Son

by Denis Johnson. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1992.

What We Don’t Know About Each Other

by Lawrence Raab. Penguin Books, 1993.

Judge on Trial

by Ivan Klíma. Knopf, 1993.

Iona Moon

by Melanie Rae Thon. Poseidon Press, 1993.

My Alexandria

by Mark Doty. University of Illinois Press, 1993.

After the War on Land

Andrew Salkey

Graves

Hayden Carruth


Readers’ Forum

Eugene Rivers’s Challenge: A Response

Eugene Genovese

On “The North/South Divide at the End of the Cold War”

Neta Crawford and Virginia S. I. Gamba

Letters from the Editor