Democracy Project
Democracy and Positive Liberty
Frank Michelman
Reviewed:
Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy
by Jürgen Habermas. MIT Press, 1996.
Freedom’s Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution
by Ronald Dworkin. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Democracy or Neoliberalism?
Atilio A. Boron
The Master of Ceremonies
Charles Simic
Creatures of the Right
Fred Block
High Windows and Four-Letter Words
Stephen Burt
The Prophet of Hope
Alan A. Stone
The Autumn of the Nostalgiacrats
Marc Haefele
Nelson
Michael Hawley
The Worry of the Far Right
Liam Rector
Forum: Judging Other Cultures
With responses from Martha C. Nussbaum, Jessica Neuwirth, Frances Kamm, Robert P. George. Yael Tamir replies.
Poet’s Sampler
Willard Spiegelman introduces Robert Hahn
The Scope of Natural Selection
Daniel Dennett
Again, From the Beginning
Claudia Keelan
Books
Poetry
Reviewed:
The Chain
by Tom Sleigh. The University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Meadowlands
by Louise Glück. Ecco Press, 1996.
Prose
Reviewed:
The Life of God (As Told By Himself)
by Franco Ferrucci, translated by Franco Ferrucci and Raymond Rosenthal. University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Slowness
by Milan Kundera. Harper Collins, 1996.
Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music
by Simon Frith. Harvard University Press, 1996.
Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship
by J. M. Coetzee. University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Dunkin’ Donuts—Somerville, Mass.
Rebecca Kaiser
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Love Had a Compass: Journals and Poetry
by Robert Lax. Grove Press, 1996.
Beckon
by Gillian Conoley. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1996.
Cities of Memory
by Ellen Hinsey. Yale University Press, 1996.
Edge
by Claire Malroux, translated by Marilyn Hacker. Wake Forest University Press, 1996.
The Crack in Everything
by Alicia Suskin Ostriker. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
The Forest
by Susan Stewart. University of Chicago Press, 1995.
The Lord and the General Din of the World
by Jane Mead. Sarabande Books, 1996.
Valentine Place
by David Lehman. Scribner, 1996.
The Uses of Passion
by Angie Estes. Gibbs-Smith, 1995.
Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
by John Felstiner. Yale University Press, 1995.
Babel Tower
by A. S. Byatt. Random House, 1996.
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
by Siri Hustvedt. Henry Holt & Co., 1996.
An Experiment in Love
by Hilary Mantel. Henry Holt & Co., 1996.
Martin Dressler
by Steven Millhauser. Crown, 1996.
A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry. Knopf, 1996.
Toddler Hunting & Other Stories
by Kono Taeko, translated by Lucy North. New Directions, 1996.
The Hollow-Eyed Angel
by Janwillem van de Wetering. Soho Press, 1996.
Representations of the Intellectual
by Edward Said. Vintage, 1996.
Liberalism’s Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik
by Ira Katznelson. Princeton University Press, 1996.
