The New War on Poverty

Poverty and Power

James Jennings

The Atlanta Project

Shepard Barbash

Rebuilding Boston

Charlotte Kahn

Reweaving the Social Fabric

Ernesto Cortés, Jr.


Adultery

Patricia Traxler

Where’s The Left in Nicaragua and El Salvador?

Jack Spence

Poet’s Sampler

Robert Pinsky introduces Mark Turpin

A Matter of Life and Death

Gerard Piel

The Not-Yet Child

Joshua Weiner

Spielberg’s Success

Alan A. Stone


Books

The Shrieking of the Lambs

Andrew Klavan

Reviewed:

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis. Random House/Vintage, 1991.

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris. St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 1988.

Salem’s Lot

by Stephen King. Signet, 1976.

Dracula

by Bram Stoker. Oxford University Press, 1992.

Who Cares About Voting Rights?

Mark Tushnet

Reviewed:

The Tyranny of the Majority

by Lani Guinier. Free Press, 1994.

Explaining Los Angeles

Marc B. Haefele

Reviewed:

City of Quartz

by Mike Davis. Vintage, 1992.

Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World

by David Rieff. Touchstone, 1992.

Letters

Reviewed:

One Art

Letters by Elizabeth Bishop, selected and edited by Robert Giroux. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1994.

Poetry

Reviewed:

Collected Poems

by Thom Gunn. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1994.

A History of Small Life on a Windy Planet

by Martha Collins. University of Georgia Press, 1993.

Devolution of the Nude

by Lynne McMahon. David R. Godine, 1993.

Crossroads

by David R. Slavitt. Louisiana State University Press, 1994.

Fiction

Reviewed:

Pulp

by Charles Bukowski. Black Sparrow Press, 1994.

Under the Bone

by Anne-Christine d’Adesky. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1994.

Crossing the River

by Caryl Phillips. Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.


Students

Bruce Smith

The Glen

Steven Cramer

Readers’ Forum

Letters from Jane M. O. Sharp and Alexei Arbatov