Is Government Incompetent?

A Democratic Revival?

Ruy Teixeira

A Rational Option

John Canham-Clyne with Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein


No Soul

Alan A. Stone

Digging Ditches

Debra Dickerson

Poet’s Sampler

Brenda Hillman introduces ‘Annah Sobelman

Atrocities

Allan Forbes

Message to the Bride

David Rivard


Readers’ Forum

Replies to Rivers on Black Nationalism

Michael Bérubé, Tony Martin, Robin D. G. Kelley, Martin Kilson, Glenn C. Loury, Bruce Nichols, Lisa Y. Sullivan, Karen Lattea, Willard R. Johnson, Mark Tushnet, and Bob Hulteen.

Replies to Thomson’s “Abortion”

Philip L. Quinn, Donald Regan, Douglas Laycock, Drucilla Cornell, and Peter de Marneffe. Thomson replies.


Evening III

Stuart Dischell


Books

Flashman and the Tragic Sensibility

Andrew Klavan

Reviewed:

Flashman and the Angel of the Lord

by George MacDonald Fraser. Random House, 1995.

Flashman and the Redskins

by George MacDonald Fraser. Penguin, 1983.

Flashman

by George MacDonald Fraser. Penguin, 1984.

Flashman and the Great Game

by George MacDonald Fraser. Penguin, 1989.

Flash for Freedom!

by George MacDonald Fraser. Penguin, 1985.

Reviews

Reviewed:

4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julian Torma, and Jacques Vache

introduced by Roger Conover, Terry Hale and Paul Lenti, and translated by Terry Hale, Paul Lenti, Idin White, and C. Atlas Press, 1995.

Sabbath’s Theater

by Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

The Wild Field

by Rita Gabis. Alice James Books, 1994.