Summer 1998 - Boston Review

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

Marianne Taylor

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

Wislawa Szymborska, Poems: New and Collected, 1957-1997

Frances Padorr Brent

The Selected Leters of of Marianne Moore

Edited by Bonnie Costello

Kay Ryan

Susan Wheeler, Smokes

Stephen Burt

Microreviews

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

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

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

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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