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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.

 

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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
Poetry
Poet’s Sampler: Prageeta Sharma
Introduced by Forrest Gander
Correct Mistake
Richard Meier
In the Country
Judith Taylor
Syntax
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
A New Hope
George Lucas’s The Phantom Menace
Alan A. Stone

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