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Arts in Society

Notes from the Underground

Disobedience by Alice Notley.

  • Brian Kim Stefans
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The Biases of Grief

Song and Dance by Alan Shapiro.

  • Brian Henry
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Microreviews: December 2002/January 2003

Thirteen new poetry collections.

Arts in Society

Dreams and Deceptions

Zhang Yimou loses his muse.

  • Alan A. Stone
Gender & Sexuality

Feminist Icons in Love

The romantic obsessions of Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marguerite Duras

  • Vivian Gornick
Law Philosophy Politics

Citizenship in Emergency

Can democracy protect us against terrorism?

  • Elaine Scarry
with responses from
  • Richard Falk
  • Paul W. Kahn
  • Stephen M. Walt
  • Charles Knight
  • Antonia Chayes
  • Catherine Lutz
  • Eugene J. Carroll, Jr.
  • Randall Forsberg
  • Ellen Willis

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Law

Victims for the Prosecution

A survivor of the embassy bombings on the limits of victim impact testimony.

  • Susan F. Hirsch
Philosophy Politics

The Diaspora and the Intifada

The responsibility of American Jews.

  • Ben-Zion Gold
Philosophy Science

Embryonic Stem Cell Research

A moral defense.

  • F. M. Kamm
Arts in Society

Indians

A short story. 

  • Scott Blackwood
Arts in Society

Making History

In the new historical novel, the past is part of the fiction.

  • Richard A. Kaye
Philosophy Science

Do We Need a God?

Maybe not.

  • Richard Eldridge
Arts in Society Philosophy Science

Unnatural Sentences

Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science.

  • Brenda Wineapple

Nonfiction Microreviews

October/November 2002

Arts in Society

Stripped-Down Sappho

More of the Tenth Muse shows through the fragments in an astonishing new translation.

  • John D’Agata
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Celebrating a World in Danger

Jorie Graham's Never: Poems.
 

  • Bin Ramke
Arts in Society

Modernism, Again

Two new collections by Jennifer Moxley and Geoffrey G. O’Brien.

  • Cole Swenson
Arts in Society

Microreviews: October/November 2002

Eight new poetry collections.

Arts in Society

Poet’s Sampler: Katy Lederer

Introduced by Gillian Conoley

  • Katy Lederer
Arts in Society

Fifth Annual Poetry Contest Winner: Max Winter

Introduced by James Tate

  • Max Winter
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By the wayside

  • Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Arts in Society

Facing South by True North

  • Don Hymans
Arts in Society

Apostrophe (deftly turned phrase)

  • Bill Kennedy
  • Darren Wershler-Henry
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  • Ethan Paquin
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