Forum
How Can the Democrats Win?
RICK PERLSTEIN
WITH RESPONSES BY WILLIAM A. GALSTON, ADOLPH REED JR., RUY TEIXEIRA, DAN CAROL, DANIEL CANTOR, ROBERT B. REICH, MICHAEL C. DAWSON, ELAINE KAMARCK, RICHARD DELGADO, STANLEY ARONOWITZ, PHILIP KLINKER, LARRY M. BARTELS. REPLY FROM RICK PERLSTEIN.
Essays
Russia’s Quagmire
On ending the standoff in Chechnya
Rajan Menon
Body of the Nation
Why women were mutilated in Gujarat
Martha C. Nussbaum
The Chameleon
Does Joschka Fischer really believe in anything?
Paul Hockenos
Fiction
Flight
Ishle Yi Park
Nonfiction Reviews
Photographing Cruelty
Li Zhensheng’s Red-Color News Soldier and Jack Birns’s Assignment Shanghai
Susie Linfield
Reading China
Ian Johnson’s Wild Grass and Wang Hui’s China’s New Order
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
New Fiction Forum
Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn
Remembering Harvey Swados
Grace Paley
The Secret Lives of Men
Pat Barker’s ambitious project
James Hynes
Poetry Reviews
Desire’s Nemesis
Seven new books
Calvin Bedient
Poetry in Motion
Peter Gizzi’s Some Values of Landscape and Weather
Andrew Zawacki
The Little War Begins
Lucie Brock-Broido’s Trouble in Mind
Larissa Szporluk
Microreviews
On Film
The End of Remorse?
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ
Alan A. Stone
Poetry
Yellow Balloon Rising
Edward Bartók-Barata
an animal meant
Carol Ciavonne
Poem in the Manner of Friedrich Hölderlin
David Lehman
Poem in the Manner of Wallace Stevens as Rewritten by Gertrude Stein
David Lehman
Dislocations: Seven Scenarios
Adrienne Rich
how music is supposed to be
Carol Ciavonne
Immediately Thinking
Steve Willard
Poet’s Sampler: Gregg Biglieri
Craig Dworkin
The Tanker Never Moves
Terese Svoboda
