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Summer 1998

A forum on the future of media led by Robert McChesney, with responses from Ralph Nader, Stephen Ansolabehere, Edwin Baker, and others. Marjorie Perloff, An Lauterbach, Reginald Shepherd, and others reply to Harold Bloom’s essay on contemporary poetry. An exchange on neuroscience with Steven Pinker, Jeremy Ahouse, and Robert Berwick. Plus, poetry by Wislawa Szymborska and Anne Carson, Stephen Burt on Susan Wheeler, and more.

 

Forum 

Making Media Democratic 

AN INFORMED, PARTICIPATING CITIZENRY DEPENDS ON MEDIA THAT PROVIDE A PUBLIC SERVICE

ROBERT W. MCCHESNEY

RESPONSES FROM RALPH NADER, LAWRENCE K. GROSSMAN, C. EDWIN BAKER, DOUG SCHULER, STEPHEN ANSOLABEHERE, AND ANDREW L. SHAPIRO. MCCHESNEY REPLIES.

Essay

The Problem with Thinking Locally
A critique of the Sierra Club’s Case Against the Global Economy
Jay Mandle
Exchange
How the Mind Really Works
Steven Pinker, Robert Berwick and Jeremy Ahouse
Fiction
Very, Very Red
Diane Williams
Strip
Marianne Taylor
The Pilot
Wade S. Echer
Fiction and Nonfiction Reviews
Nicholson Baker, The Everlasting Story of Nory
Ed Park
Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Jonathan Gill
Microreviews
Poetry Reviews
Frances Padorr Brent
Kay Ryan
Stephen Burt
Poetry Forum
Responses to Harold Bloom, “They have the numbers; we, the heights”
Visionary Company
Marjorie Perloff
Here in Hell
Mark Doty
The Extraordinary Hoof
Thylias Moss
A Note from Caliban
David Mura
Hungry for Spirit
J. D. McClatchy
Mrs. B. and Me
Kevin Young
Down from the Summits
Donald Revell
Criteria
Reginald Shepherd
Fear of the New
Suzanne Gardiner
Screaming Fire
Rita Dove
Slaves of Fashion
Ann Lauterbach
War of the Edens
Carol Muske
A Fever Dream
Sven Birkets
Poetry
Poet’s Sampler: Benjamin Friedlander
Introduced by Robert Creeley
A Photograph of a Crowd
Wisława Szymborska
“The Report of My Death Is an Exaggeration”
Alfred Corn
Helen
Anne Carson
Victory Must Be a Supremely Glorious Experience Said a Woman to the Duke of Wellington
Anne Carson
Homage to My Waitress
Matthew Rohrer
Paper Sacrifice
Karen Drayne
by bicycle
Matthea Harvey
Isla Mujeres
Mark Bibbins
On Film
The Toad and the Butterfly
Mike van Diem’s Character
Alan A. Stone

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