Forum: Beyond Backyard Environmentalism

Charles Sabel, Archon Fung, and Bradley Karkkainen

With responses from Matt Wilson & 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 reply.

Correct Mistake

Richard Meier

In the Country

Judith Taylor

Gould on God

H. Allen Orr

Reviewed:

Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life

by Stephen Jay Gould. Library of Contemporary Thought, 1999.

Syntax

Reginald Shepherd

The Lost World of Richard Yates

Stewart O’Nan

The Borrowers

Michael Greenberg

Reviewed:

Lo’s Diary

by Pia Pera. Foxrock, 1999.

Ahab’s Wife, or the Star-Gazer

by Sena Jeter Naslund. William Morrow & Co., 1999.

Contests of Will

Donna Seaman

Reviewed:

The Summer of ’39

by Miranda Seymour. W. W. Norton, 1999.

Remember Me

by Laura Hendrie. Holt, 1999.

Zwilling’s Dream

James Hynes

Reviewed:

Zwilling’s Dream

by Ross Feld. Counterpoint, 1999.

Fool

Paul Gediman

Reviewed:

Fool

by Frederick G. Dillen. Algonquin, 1999.

The Catastrophist

Jennifer Howard

Reviewed:

The Catastrophist

by Ronan Bennett. Simon & Schuster, 1997.

The Human and the Monstrous

Melvin Jules Bukiet and Ron Hansen

Reviewed:

Hitler’s Niece

by Ron Hansen. Harper Collins, 1999.

The Vermeer Lady

Emily Fragos

Behind the Beat

James Campbell

Arachne: Recent Memory

Barbara Fischer

The Personal is not the Political

Seyla Benhabib

Reviewed:

Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger: Briefe 1925 bis 1975

edited by Ursula Ludz. Vittorio Klostermann, 1999.

The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt’s Concept of the Social

by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Jaham and the Old Poet

Eric Ornsby

Poet’s Sampler

Forrest Gander introduces Prageeta Sharma

A New Hope

Alan A. Stone

Of Isms and Prisms

Mac Wellman

In the Shadow of Our House

Scott Blackwood

Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot

Stephanie Strickland

Prose

Reviewed:

The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Politics and Culture in the Era of the Cold War

by Hilton Kramer. Ivan R. Dee, 1999.

Poetry

Reviewed:

Pierce-Arrow

by Susan Howe. New Directions, 1999.

My Way: Speeches and Poems

by Charles Bernstein. University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Try

by Cole Swensen. University of Iowa Press, 1999.

MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Integrity & Dramatic Life

by Anselm Berrigan. Edge Books, 1999.

Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology

edited by Deborah DeNicola. University Press of New England, 1999.

Bardo

by Suzanne Paola. University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

Vinegar Bone

by Martha Zweig. Wesleyan University Press, 1999.

First Course in Turbulence

by Dean Young. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.

The Oval Hour

by Kathleen Peirce. University of Iowa Press, 1999.

Ruining the Picture

by Pimone Triplett. Northwestern University Press, 1998.

Homing Devices

by Liz Waldner. O Books, 1998.

A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race and the Soul of America

by Craig Werner. Plume, 1999.

America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s

by Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin. Oxford University Press, 1999.

The Mysterious Flame: Conscious Minds in a Material World

by Colin McGinn. Basic Books, 1999.

American Culture, American Tastes

by Michael Kammen. Knopf, 1999.