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Hotel Eidetic

  • Kerri Webster
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Hotel Voluptuary

  • Kerri Webster
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Hotel Famish

  • Kerri Webster
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Ten Questions for Mona

  • Matthew Zapruder
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From one light to another

  • Karen Zusman
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Contingency and Grace

Jill and Karen Sprecher create characters worth believing in.

  • Alan A. Stone

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Darwin and Design

A debate about the latest defense of intelligent design.

  • William A. Dembski
  • H. Allen Orr
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Holiday à la Carte

  • Michael Coffey
Politics

Reclaiming the Commons

The silent theft of our shared assets and civic inheritance need not continue.

  • David Bollier
with responses from
  • Marcia Angell
  • Robert W. McChesney
  • Tom G. Palmer
  • Nicholas Johnson
  • Jeff Chester & Gary O. Larson
  • Richard D. Parker
  • Richard M. Stallman
  • Margaret Kohn
Law Politics

Violence, Terror, and Politics as Usual

America’s “new war” reflects an epochal change in the nature of collective violence.

  • Charles Tilly
Law Politics

Fenced In

As Arafat declines and Israel’s grip tightens, the Middle East sinks into hopelessness.

  • Helena Cobban
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St. Ursula’s Girls Against the Atomic Bomb

A short story. 

  • Valerie Hurley
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Herkunftscomplex

On Thomas Bernhard, Austria’s most infamous novelist. 

  • Jason M. Baskin
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Obsessive Love

Review: Lucius Shepard and David Gilmour

  • Richard Burgin
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The War at Home

Review: Nora Eisenberg

  • Jill Eisenstadt
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Zeeland

Review: Hans Konig

  • Roger Boylan
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Under the Influence

The intoxicating power of Kate Braverman's first novel.

  • Rick Moody
Philosophy Science

A Sublime Detective Story

William Dembski's No Free Lunch makes a confused case for Intelligent Design.

  • H. Allen Orr

Nonfiction Microreviews

Summer 2002

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Review: Torn Awake and Such Rich Hour

Two new poetry collections. 

  • BK Fischer
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21st-Century Modernism

Pitting so-called postmodernism against modernism has given us a truncated view of literary history.

  • Yunte Huang
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Review: Eunoia

By Christian Bök.

  • Brian Kim Stefans
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Review: Zirconia and Miss America

Fence's new book series starts with a bang.

  • Cole Swensen
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Poet’s Sampler: Curtis Bonney

Introduced by Maxine Chernoff

  • Curtis Bonney
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