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Summer 1999

The New Politics of Consumption

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. Poetry by Jordan Davis, Emma Straub and Jesper Svenbro, and more.

 

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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
Neil Shister
Fiction
Duet
Pamela Erens
Poetry
Poet’s Sampler: Jordan Davis
Introduced by David Shapiro
Laurie’s House
Jamey Dunham
The Mutiny on the Bounty
Karri Harrison
Deconstructing Stefan, or Destructing Stefan
Emma Straub
At first you don’t succeed
Steven Monte
Happy Jack’s on Our Saturday Morning
Elizabeth Macklin
The Definite Article
Elizabeth Macklin
Rainbows
Jesper Svenbro
Saint-Merri
Jesper Svenbro
On Film
Lives of Women
Eric Rohmer’s The Autumn Tale
Alan A. Stone

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