Forum: The Search for New Voting Technology
Stephen Ansolabehere
With responses from Lloyd Cutler & Robert Michel, Rogers M. Smith, Donna Brazile, David C. King, Daniel R. Ortiz, E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Robert Richie, Heather Gerken, Mickey Edwards, Marc Strassman, and Michael Cornfield. Ansolabehere replies.
Right down to the melody of rain…
Karen Zusman
Lust for Life
James Tate
Sonnet Macaronic
Jennifer Scappettone
Seaweeds
Laurie Sheck
Towards Lethargy: A Solo for One Voice
Brett Fletcher Lauer
Uncle Jake and the Caped Crusaders
Mary Hanna
Alfred Nobel and His Prizes
James Campbell
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
James Sallis
Reviewed:
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
by Patricia Highsmith. W. W. Norton, 2001.
Love Among the Ruins
Tom Bissell
Reviewed:
Love Among the Ruins
by Robert Clark. W. W. Norton, 2001.
The Attention Lesson
P. F. Potvin
Poet’s Sampler
Bruce Andrews introduces Robert Fitterman
What’s Wrong with Missile Defense: Interview with Ted Postol
Joshua Cohen
Zombie Sunday
Joshua Bell
Fourth Annual Poetry Contest Winner
Carl Phillips introduces D. A. Powell
Zhang Yimou’s Long Road Home
Alan A. Stone
A Quick One Before I Go (November 14)
David Lehman
Poetry
Reviewed:
The Cosmos Poems
by Frederick Seidel. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2000.
Life on Earth
by Frederick Seidel. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001.
How to Do Things with Tears
by Allen Grossman. New Directions, 2001.
The Beauty of the Husband
by Anne Carson. Knopf, 2001.
Felt
by Alice Fulton. W. W. Norton, 2001.
Plot
by Claudia Rankine. Grove Press, 2001.
Prose
Reviewed:
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001.
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Exactly What Happened
by Joel Brouwer. Purdue University Press, 1999.
Boss Cupid
by Thom Gunn. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2000.
Climbing Back
by Dionisio L. Martínez. W. W. Norton, 2001.
Fidget
by Kenneth Goldsmith. Coach Home Press, 1994.
She Didn’t Mean To Do It
by Daisy Fried. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
Time’s Fool
by Glyn Maxwell. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
The Boys at Twilight
by Glyn Maxwell. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
The Tether
by Carl Phillips. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001.
Lunch
by D. A. Powell. Wesleyan University Press, 2000.
The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention
by Mark Strand. Knopf, 2001.
American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century
by Gary Gerstle. Princeton University Press, 2001.
Parity of the Sexes
by Sylviane Agacinski. Columbia University Press, 2001.
The Helsinki Effect: International Norms, Human Rights, and the Demise of Communism
by Daniel C. Thomas. Princeton University Press, 2001.
The Velvet Coup: The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the Decline of American Democracy
by Daniel Lazare. Verso, 2001.