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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
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
(L)ID
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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