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October/November 2000

A debate on a universal basic income with Philippe Van Parijs and responses from William Galston, Peter Edelman, Anne Alstott, Emma Rothschild, Herbert Simon, Wade Rathke, and others. Dmitri Tymoczko on the musical philosophies of Milton Babbitt and John Cage. Patrick Erouart-Siad on Haitian literarture and political disaster, Tom Bissell on Richard Powers’ Plowing the Dark, Jill Eisenstadt on Lucinda Rosenfeld’s What She Saw. Plus fiction by Diane Williams, new translations of Paul Celan, and more.

 

Forum 

A Basic Income for All

SHOULD EVERYONE SHOULD BE GUARANTEED AN INCOME SUFFICIENT TO LIVE ON?

PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS

RESPONSES FROM WILLIAM A. GALSTON, J. HERBERT A. SIMON, WADE RATHKE, EMMA ROTHSCHILD, EDMUND S. PHELPS, BRIAN BARRY, ELIZABETH ANDERSON, ANNE L. ALSTOTT, RONALD DORE, FRED BLOCK, ROBERT E. GOODIN, KATHERINE MCFATE, PETER EDELMAN, GAR ALPEROVITZ, AND CLAUS OFFE. PHILIPPE VAN PARIJS REPLIES.

Essays

The Sound of Philosophy
The musical obsessions of Milton Babbitt and John Cage
Dmitri Tymoczko

Fiction

Diane Williams

New Fiction Forum

The Wound and the Dream
In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives amid disaster
Patrick Erouart-Siad
Brian McGrory, The Incumbent
Toby Olsen, Write Letter to Billy
Roger Boylan
Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark
Tom Bissell
Lucinda Rosenfeld, What She Saw . . .
Jill Eisenstadt
Simone Zelitch, Louisa
Leora Bersohn
Anne Enright, What Are You Like?
Robert Karron
Emily Carter, Glory Goes and Gets Some
Don Hymans

Nonfiction Reviews

Mike Parker and Martha Gruelle, Democracy Is Power
J.W. Mason
Microreviews

Poetry Reviews

Tessa Rumsey, Assembling the Shepherd
Catherine Daly
Guillevic, Carnac and Living in Poetry
James Sallis
Armand Schwerner, The Tablets
Andrew Zawacki
Microreviews

Poetry

Poet’s Sampler: Miranda Field
Introduced by James Longenbach
With wine and being lost
Paul Celan
Frankfurt, September
Paul Celan
Threesome, Foursome
Paul Celan
Your heart manholed
Paul Celan
Tryst
Robin Robertson
Fear
Monica Ferrell
Piece Together
Richard Greenfield 
from Black Series
Laurie Sheck
Un Chasseur de l’Hôtel des Étoiles Aveugles
Joshua Corey
Third Annual Poetry Contest Winner: Christopher Edgar
Introduced by John Ashbery

On Film

The Fresh Prince
Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet
Alan A. Stone

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