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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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NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM

 

Forum: The New Politics of Consumption

Juliet Schor

 

With responses from Robert H. Frank; James Twitchell; Jack Gibbons; Clair Brown; Betsy Taylor; Douglas B. Holt; Craig J. Thompson; Michèle Lamont and Virág Molnár; and Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and John Scmitt.

 

FICTION

 

Duet

Pamela Erens

 

POETRY

 

Poet’s Sampler: Jordan Davis

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

 

Rainbows

Jesper Svenbro

 

Happy Jack’s on Our Saturday Morning

Elizabeth Macklin

 

The Definite Article

Elizabeth Macklin

 

Saint-Merri

Jesper Svenbro

 

ESSAYS

 

Primo Levi’s Last Moments

Diego Gambetta

 

The Two-Hundred Years War

G. M. Tamás

 

Identity Politics

Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky

 

On Film: Eric Rohmer’s Canvas

Alan A. Stone

 

Culture Watch: For Whom the Bells Toll

Neil Shister

 

REVIEWS

 

Poetry

Medbh McGuckian and Ciaran Carson

Thomas O’Grady

 

Jackstraws by Charles Simic

Brian Henry

 

The End of the Alphabet by Claudia Rankine

Calvin Bedient

 

Prose

Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison

Scott Saul

 

Microreviews

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

Twelve years on, a new look at the Italian author’s death
Diego Gambetta
Searching for the origins of the Kosovo conflict—in the eighteenth century
G. M. Tamás
Forced deportations are turning the Ethiopian-Eritrean border conflict into ethnic war
Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky
From post-literary America, ringing praise for Ernest Hemingway
Neil Shister
Fiction
Pamela Erens
Poetry
Introduced by David Shapiro
Jamey Dunham
Karri Harrison
Emma Straub
Steven Monte
Elizabeth Macklin
Elizabeth Macklin
Jesper Svenbro
Jesper Svenbro
On Film
Eric Rohmer’s The Autumn Tale
Alan A. Stone

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