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Summer 1999

A forum on Juliet Schor’s “The New Politics of Consumption,” with responses by Robert H. Frank, Betsy Taylor, James B. Twitchell and others. Diego Gambetta on the Primo Levi’s tragic death. G. M. Tamás on the roots of the Kosovo conflict. Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky on the Ethiopian-Eritrean border war. Alan Stone reviews The Autumn Tale. Plus: fiction by Pamela Erens, poetry by Jordan Davis, Emma Straub and Jesper Svenbro, book reviews, and more.

Forum

The New Politics of Consumption

WHY DO AMERICANS WANT SO MUCH MORE THAN THEY NEED?

JULIET SCHOR

RESPONSES FROM ROBERT H. FRANK, JAMES TWITCHELL, JACK GIBBONS, CLAIR BROWN, BETSY TAYLOR, DOUGLAS B. HOLT, CRAIG J. THOMPSON, MICHELE LAMONT AND VIRAG MOLNAR, AND LAWRENCE MISHEL, JARED BERNSTEIN AND JOHN SCHMITT. JULIET SCHOR REPLIES.

Essays

Primo Levi’s Last Moments

Twelve years on, a new look at the Italian author’s death

Diego Gambetta

The Two Hundred Years War

Searching for the origins of the Kosovo conflict—in the eighteenth century

G. M. Tamás

Identity Politics

Forced deportations are turning the Ethiopian-Eritrean border conflict into ethnic war

Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky

For Whom the Bells Toll

From post-literary America, ringing praise for Ernest Hemingway