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October/November 1998

A debate on immigration policy led by Owen Fiss, with responses by Richard B. Freeman, T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Rogers M. Smith, and others. Neil Shister on wedding culture; Cass Sunstein on religion and sexual equality; H. Allen Orr on E. O. Wilson. Plus, fiction by Maxine Rodburg; Forrest Gander reviews Robert Creeley’s Life & Death; poetry by Lee Ann Brown, Miranda Field, and more.

 

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The Immigrant as Pariah 

REFORMING SOCIAL RESTRICTIONS ON IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES

OWEN FISS

RESPONSES FROM RICHARD B. FREEMAN, T. ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF, ROGERS M. SMITH, JENNIFER GORDON, ULRICH PREUSS, IRIS M. YOUNG, ROBIN WEST, MARK TUSHNET, MYRON WEINER, JAGDISH BHAGWATI, MUZAFFAR CHRISHTI. FISS REPLIES.

Essays

Queen for a Day
Questioning the modern wedding ritual
Neil Shister 
Sexual Equality vs. Religion: What Should the Law Do?
Cass R. Sunstein
The Big Picture
E. O. Wilson’s new book is ambitious, vague, and philosophically naïve
H. Allen Orr
Fiction
The Orphan
Maxine Rodburg
Poetry
First Annual Poetry Contest Winner: Daniel Bosch
Introduced by Jane Miller
Poet’s Sampler: Lee Ann Brown
Introduced by Elaine Equi
Housefire
Miranda Field
Autumn Song
Charles Baudelaire
The Poet Donates Her Body to Science
Christina Davis
Severance
Christina Davis
The Farmers of Good Dirt
Mary Crockett
Hill From a Vacant House
Mark Wunderlich
On Film
Selling (Out) Nabokov
Adrian Lyne’s Lolita
Alan A. Stone 

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