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Summer 2001
A debate on the Internet and democracy with Cass Sunstein, Jay Rosen, Simon Garfinkel, Michael Schudson, and others. John Tirman follows the political dreams of refugee communities. Stephen Burt surveys James Merrill’s poetry. Santiago Gamboa on Colombian crime fiction. Gopal Balakrishnan and William Scheuerman debate the meaning of Carl Schmitt’s legal theory, poetry by Peter Gizzi, Sam Truitt, and Lucie Brock-Broido; microreviews, and more.  
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Is the Internet Bad for Democracy? 
THE DANGERS OF INFINITE PERSONALIZATION
CASS SUNSTEIN
RESPONSES FROM AY ROSEN, SIMON GARFINKEL, MICHAEL SCHUDSON, RONALD N. JACOBS, SHANTO IYENGAR, HENRY JENKINS AND ROBERT W. MCCHESNEY. CASS SUNSTEIN REPLIES.
Essays
Nationalism in Exile
Following the political dreams of refugee communities
John Tirman
Becoming Literature
James Merrill’s poetry of autobiography and social comedy
Stephen Burt
Fiction
Monkey Sí
Manuel Muñoz
Poetry
Poet’s Sampler: Sam Truitt
Introduced by C. D. Wright
An Inner Life for Dummies
Lisa Beskin
One for the Guys
Liam Rector
Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear
Peter Gizzi
Butter and Eggs
Harry Mathews
A Genius Made
Corinna Vallianatos
Boy at the Border of His Own Allegory
Lucie Brock-Broido
Cyril Method
Craig Dworkin
Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil
Peter Gizzi
On Film
No Defense
How to ruin a Nabokov novel
Alan A. Stone
Exchange
Among Enemies
Debating Carl Schmitt’s legal theory
Gopal Balakrishnan and William Scheuerman

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