Forum: What Makes Schools Work?

Richard D. Kahlenberg and Bernard Wasow

With responses from William A. Galston, Richard J. Murnane, Reg Weaver, Joseph P. Viteritti, Amy Hanauer, and Deborah Meier. Kahlenberg and Wasow reply.

Requiem

Angie Estes

2 Sonnets

Karen Volkman

Dominance and Its Dilemmas

Noam Chomsky

From REAL

Stephen Ratcliffe

The Iraqi Shiites

Juan Cole

Shock and Awe Meets Market Shock

Duncan Kennedy

Exit Strategy

James K. Galbraith

Tragedy and Justice

Martha C. Nussbaum

*true confessions*

Vivian Chin

Why We’re So Tough on Crime

Carol S. Steiker

Reviewed:

Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America and Europe

by James Q. Whitman. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Grave New World

George Scialabba

Reviewed:

Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age

by Bill McKibben. Times Books, 2003.

Our Technologies, Ourselves

Carl Elliott

Reviewed:

Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology

by Edward Tenner. Knopf, 2003.

Buona Sera, Social Clubs?

Alane Salierno Mason

Reviewed:

Don’t Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing

edited by Regina Barreca. Penguin Books, 2002.

The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture

edited by Louise DeSalvo and Edvidge Giunta. Feminist Press, 2003.

The Italian American Reader

edited by Bill Tonelli. William Morrow & Co., 2003.

Mastery

Carl Phillips

Like Cuttings for a Wreath of Praise and Ransom

Carl Phillips

Another Country

Sue Halpern

Poetry Contest Winner

Richard Howard introduces Susan Wheeler

Poet’s Sampler

Arthur Sze introduces Josey Foo

Two White Americans

Paul Killebrew

Reviewed:

American Incident

by Brian Henry. Salt Publishing, 2002.

Famous Americans

by Loren Goodman. Yale University Press, 2003.

Say Goodbye to Everything

John Palattella

Reviewed:

Blue Hour

by Carolyn Forché. HarperCollins, 2003.

Back to Jarrell

Jacques Khalip

Reviewed:

Randall Jarrell and His Age

by Stephen Burt. Columbia University Press, 2002.

An Audit by the Patio

Michelle J. Boese

Poetry MicroReviews

Reviewed:

Every Bird is One Bird

by Francine Sterle. Tupelo Press, 2001.

Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz

by Jaime Saenz, trans. Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander. University of California Press, 2002.

Nude Siren

by Peter Richards. Verse Press, 2003.

Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry

by Robert Pinsky. Princeton University Press, 2002.

Slowly

by Lyn Heijinian. Tuumba Press, 2002.

Soft Sift

by Mark Ford. Harcourt, 2001.

Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath

by Helen Vendler. Harvard University Press, 2003.

Searching for Anne’s Grave

David Trinidad

Realism’s Redemption

Alan A. Stone