October/November 1999

A New Environmentalism Takes Root

A debate on the new environmentalism, led by Charles Sabel, Archon Fung, and Bradley Karkkainen, with responses by Cass Sunstein, Daniel J. Fiorino, Matt Wilson and others. Stewart O’Nan on the lost fiction of Richard Yates, Michael Greenberg on the art of borrowed fiction. H. Allen Orr on religion vs. science. Seyla Benhabib on Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and the fate of the personal. Plus, fiction by Scott Blackwod, poetry by Prageeta Sharma, Mac Wellman, and Judith Taylor, and more.

Forum

Beyond Backyard Environmentalism NOW A BOOK!

HOW COMMUNITIES ARE QUIETLY REFASHIONING ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION

CHARLES SABEL, ARCHON FUNG, AND BRADLEY KARKKAINEN

RESPONSES FROM MATT WILSON AND ERIC WELTMAN, DANIEL J. FIORINO, THEODORE J LOWI, DEWITT JOHN, JACQUELINE SAVITZ, LAWRENCE SUSSKIND, DANIEL FARBER, JASON F. SHOGREN, AND CASS R. SUNSTEIN. SABEL, FUNG, AND KARKKAINEN RESPOND.

Essays

Gould on God

Can religion and science be happily reconciled?

H. Allen Orr

The Personal Is Not the Political

The public life of Hannah Arendt’s private life

Seyla Benhabib

Fiction

In the Shadow of Our House

Scott Blackwood

New Fiction Forum

The Lost Fiction of Richard Yates

Why a great writer of the Age of Anxiety slipped out of print

Stewart O’Nan

The Borrowers

Pia Pera, Lo’s Diary

Sena Jeter Nusland, Ahab’s Wife

Michael Greenberg

Contests of Will

Miranda Seymour, Summer of ’39

Laura Henrie, Remember Me

Donna Seaman

The Human and the Monstrous

A novelist and his reviewer debate the literary representation of Hitler

Melvin Jules Bukiet and Ron Hansen

Behind the Beat

Remembering Neurotica, the short-lived journal of the Beats

James Campbell

Ross Feld, Zwilling’s Dream

James Hynes

Frederick G. Dillen, Fool

Paul Gediman

Ronan Bennett, The Catastrophist

Jennifer Howard

Nonfiction Reviews

Hilton Kramer, The Twighlight of the Intellectuals

George Scialabba

Microreviews

Poetry Reviews

Susan Howe, Pierce-Arrow

Brian Lennon

Charles Bernstein, My Way: Speeches and Poems

Geoff Ward

Cole Swensen, Try

Gillian Conoley

Microreviews

Poetry

Poet’s Sampler: Prageeta Sharma

Introduced by Forrest Gander

Correct Mistake

Richard Meier

In the Country

Judith Taylor

Reginald Shepherd

The Vermeer Lady

Emily Fragos

Arachne: Recent Memory

Barbara Fischer

Jaham and the Old Poet

Eric Ormsby

Of Isms and Prisms

Mac Wellman

The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot

Stephanie Strickland

On Film

George Lucas’s The Phantom Menace

Alan A. Stone

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