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Summer 2001

Is the Internet Bad for Democracy?

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. Santiago Gamboa on Colombian crime fiction. Poetry by Peter Gizzi, Sam Truitt, and Lucie Brock-Broido, and more.

 

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NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM

 

Forum: The Daily We

Cass R. Sunstein

 

With responses from Jay Rosen, Simson Garfinkel, Michael Schudson, Ronald N. Jacobs, Shanto Iyengar, Henry Jenkins, and Robert W. McChesney

 

NEW FICTION FORUM

 

Secret Histories

Santiago Gamboa (trans. Rafael Reyes-Ruiz)

 

By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Patrick Erouart-Siad

 

Brad Leithauser and Barry Unsworth

James Sallis

 

The Rights of Desire by André Brink

Roger Boylan

 

FICTION

 

Monkey Sí

Manuel Muñoz

 

EXCHANGE

 

Among Enemies?

Gopal Balakrishnan and William Scheuerman

 

ESSAYS

 

Nationalism in Exile

John Tirman

 

Becoming Literature

Stephen Burt

 

On Film: No Defense

Alan A. Stone

 

POETRY

 

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 Matthews

 

A Genius Made

Corinna Vallianatos

 

Poet’s Sampler: Sam Truitt

C. D. Wright

 

Boy at the Border of His Own Allegory

Lucie Brock-Broido

 

Cyril Method

Craig Dworkin

 

Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil

Peter Gizzi

 

REVIEWS

 

Poetry

Two Books by Gjertrud Schnackenberg

Christina Davis

 

Revenants by Mark Nowak

Alan Gilbert

 

Comp. by Kevin Davies

Brian Kim Stefans

 

Jennifer Clarvoe, Stacy Doris, and Joanna Klink

Laura Sims

 

Prose

Lisa McGirr and Rick Perlstein

Todd Gitlin

 

Microreviews

Forum 

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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