Forum: Toward the End of War

Randall Caroline Forsberg

With responses from Robert Borosage, Edward Luttwak, Raimo Väyrynen, Ulrich Albrecht, Carl Kaysen, Bruce Russett, and Rep. Ronald V. Dellums (D-Calif.). Forsberg replies.

Sifting Waco’s Ashes

Alan A. Stone

Crows

Marlon Ohnesorge-Fick

Lenin’s Bath

Dana Levin

Poet’s Sampler

Richard Kenney introduces Joanie Mackowski

Forum: Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women?

Susan Moller Okin

With responses from Katha Pollitt, Will Kymlicka, Bonnie Honig, Yael Tamir, Sander Gilman, Robert Post, Bhiku Parekh, Elizabeth Frazer, Saskia Sassen, Homi K. Bhabha, Joseph Raz, and Janet Halley. Okin replies.

In this sense, beyond

Claudia Rankine

The Key of C Does Not Know My Biography

John Matthias

That Music is the Spur to all Licentiousness

John Matthias

Portrait of the Author as Raoul

Lynn Emanuel

Fritz: A Fable

Josip Novakovich

The Softer Side of Sociobiology

H. Allen Orr

Reviewed:

The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation

by Matt Ridley. Viking Penguin, 1997.

Visions of the American Berserk

Paul Gediman

Reviewed:

American Pastoral

by Philip Roth. Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

Underworld

by Don DeLillo. Scribner, 1997.

Poetry Reviews

Reviewed:

The Errancy

by Jorie Graham. Ecco Press, 1997.

Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

by Marjorie Perloff. University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Prose Reviews

Reviewed:

Invisible Republic

by Greil Marcus. Henry Holt & Co., 1997.

Virginia Woolf: A Biography

by Hermione Lee. Knopf, 1997.

Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf

by Panthea Reid. Oxford University Press, 1996.

Thirteen Ways: Theoretical Investigations in Architecture

by Robert Harbison. MIT Press, 1997.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants, and Bars

edited by Kurt Brown and Laure-Anne Bosselar. Milkweed Editions, 1997.

The Essential Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson, selected by Joyce Carol Oates. Ecco Press, 1996.

The Spirit Level

by Seamus Heaney. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997.

Viridian

by Paul Hoover. University of Georgia Press, 1997.

Bed of Sphinxes: New & Selected Poems 1943-1993

by Philip Lamantia. City Lights, 1997.

Swimming at Midnight: Selected Shorter Poems

by John Matthias. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1995.

Beltane at Aphelion: Longer Poems

by John Matthias. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1995.

Selected Poems

by Harvey Shapiro. Wesleyan/University Press of New England, 1997.

Iron Mountain Road

by Eamonn Wall. Salmon/Dufour Editions, 1997.