Flatness and Fairness
Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried
Reviewed:
The Flat Tax
by Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka. Hoover Institution Press, 1995.
Forum: What Should Unions Do?
With responses from Lynn Williams, Wade Rathke, Straughton Lynd, Richard A. Epstein, Elaine Bernard, Joel Rogers, Madeline Talbott, Bill Wylie Kellerman, Mike Miller, Katherine Sciacchitano, Richard Locke, Peter Cervantes-Gautschi, Bill Fletcher Jr., Mark Erlich, Thomas A. Kochan, and Janice Fine.
The Guardian Angel of the Private Life
Jorie Graham
Hands Off Clitoridectomy
Yael Tamir
A Conversation with Stanley Plumly
Lisa Meyer
Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me
Stanley Plumly
Abortion’s Past
Maureen Paul
Reviewed:
Doctors with Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortions Before and After Roe v. Wade
by Carole Joffe. Beacon Press, 1996.
Caps
Kay Ryan
Dennett’s Strange Idea
H. Allen Orr
Reviewed:
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
by Daniel C. Dennett. Simon & Schuster, 1995.
A Second Nature
Alan A. Stone
Poet’s Sampler
David Lehman introduces Beth Gylys
The Time of Reading
Sven Birkerts
Books
Poetry
Reviewed:
The Vixen
by W. S. Merwin. Knopf, 1996.
Crash’s Law
by Karen Volkman. W. W. Norton, 1996.
The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994
by Jorie Graham. The Ecco Press, 1995.
Fiction
Reviewed:
My Soul to Keep
by Judith Hawkes. E. P. Dutton, 1996.
The Information
by Martin Amis. Vintage, 1996.
Self-Portrait with Woman
by Andrzej Szczypiorski. Grove Press, 1996.
Pierced
April Bernard
Procedurals
April Bernard
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Auden
by Richard Davenport-Hines. Pantheon, 1996.
The Only World
by Lynda Hull. HarperCollins, 1995.
Pieces of Shadow: The Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines
by Jaime Sabines, translated by W. S. Merwin. Marsilio Publishers, 1996.
The Ghost of Eden
by Chase Twichell. Ontario Review Press, 1995.
The Afterimage
by Phillis Levin. Copper Beech Press, 1995.
Wild Kingdom
by Vijay Seshadri. Graywolf Press, 1996.
Elephant Rocks
by Kay Ryan. Grove Press, 1996.
That Kind of Danger
by Donna Masini. Beacon Press, 1994.
Approximate Darling
by Lee Upton. University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Worldling
by Elizabeth Spires. W. W. Norton, 1995.
Last Orders
by Graham Swift. Knopf, 1996.
Blake
by Peter Ackroyd. Knopf, 1996.
Piano Pieces
by Russell Sherman. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1996.
On Grief and Reason
by Joseph Brodsky. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1995.
The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing
by James Elkins. Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Whom the Gods Love
by Kate Ross. Penguin, 1996.
Proper Name and Other Stories
by Bernadette Mayer. New Directions, 1996.
Live Girls
by Beth Nugent. Knopf, 1996.
Love’s Work
by Gillian Rose. Schocken, 1995.
