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.