Summer 2000 - Boston Review

Summer 2000

A forum on economic segregation and the underclass, with Owen Fiss, Richard Ford, J. Phillip Thompson, Jennifer Hochschild, and others. Susie Linfield takes on South Africa’s Truth Commission. G. M. Tamás discusses post-fascism. Ross Feld follows A. B. Yehoshua’s literary diaspora, Joyce Hackett senses W. G. Sebald’s “feelings of swindle,” and Stewart O’Nan calls George Saunders the funniest writer in America. Plus, Stephen Burt reviews Mark Levine, fiction by Elisha Porat, poetry by Bill Knott, and more.

Forum

Moving Out of the Ghetto

RELOCATION IS REQUIRED NOT ONLY AS GOOD SOCIAL POLICY, BUT ALSO AS A MATTER OF JUSTICE

OWEN FISS

RESPONSES FROM RICHARD FORD, J. PHILLIP THOMPSON, ROBERT COLES, JENNIFER HOCHSCHILD, GARY ORFIELD, JAMES ROSENBAUM, AND ALEXANDER POLIKOFF. OWEN FISS REPLIES.

Essays

Trading Truth for Justice?

South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Susie Linfield

On Post-Fascism

How citizenship is becoming an exclusive privilege

G. M. Tamás

Fiction

Two Jews, Three Immigrants

Elisha Porat

The Day of Saint John

Kathleen de Azevedo

New Fiction Forum

Restless Souls

The novels of Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua

Ross Feld

The Naked and the Dead

Tom Drury’s Hunts in Dreams and Stephen Dobyns’s Eating Naked

Roger Boylan

Tunnel Rats

H. Lee Barnes’s Gunning for Ho and John Mort’s Soldier in Paradise

Jerome Gold

W. G. Sebald, Vertigo

Translated by Michael Hulse

Joyce Hackett

George Saunders, Pastoralia

Stewart O’Nan

Joan Silber, In My Other Life

Jennifer Howard

Robert Cabot, That Sweetest Wine

Bill Marx

Nonfiction Review

John Seabrook, Nobrow

Edwin Frank

Poetry Reviews

Mark Levine, Enola Gay

Stephen Burt

William H. Gass, Reading Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies

Nicole Krauss

Reginald Shepherd, Wrong

Brian Henry

Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours

John D’Agata

Microreviews

Poetry

Poet’s Sampler: Bradley Paul

Introduced by John Yau

Poem to Line My Casket with, Ramona

Josh Bell

Poems of Depth

Monica de la Torre

Echo Near the End

Bill Knott

Poem that Wants to Be Ash

Bill Knott

Bill Knott

American Gestures

Paul Hoover

A short narrative in service of plot entitled Proximity of Exposed to Posed

Claudia Rankine

For Girls Only

Laura Sims

Orpheus Under the Table

Liz Waldner

On Film

Split Personality

James Mangold’s Girl, Interrupted

Alan A. Stone

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