Books & Ideas

Why We’re So Tough on Crime

The widening divide between America and Europe.

Carol S. Steiker

Grave New World

Review: Staying Human in an Engineered Age .

George Scialabba

Our Technologies, Ourselves

Review: The Past and Future of Body Technology.

Carl Elliott

Buona Sera, Social Clubs?

Three collections of Italian American writing.

Alane S. Mason

Another Country

Writing The Book of Hard Things.

Sue Halpern

Back to Jarrell

Stephen Burt 's Randall Jarrell and His Age.

Jacques Khalip

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Microreviews: Oct/Nov 2003

Eight new collections of poetry.

Letters

Nonfiction Microreviews

Summer 2003

Outside Providence

Jefferson Decker

Still Blaming the Victim

In Young, Gifted, and Black, Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard III do not address the deep structural inequalities that are the chief causes of the achievement gap.

Charles R. Lawrence, III

Still Blaming the Victim

Iran’s Other Religion

The birthplace of Zarathustianism.

Jehangir Pocha

Memory’s Lair

Memory, like everything else in the world, can be clumsily used, or unintelligently used, or used for false purposes or in bad faith.

Susie Linfield

The Secret History of the Magna Carta

Its most far-reaching provisions aren’t the ones we remember.

Peter Linebaugh

Nonfiction Microreviews

April/May 2003

Letters

April/May 2003

Maxwell’s Lives

James Campbell

The Politics of Rescue

Debating humanitarian intervention.

Carroll Bogert

Can Social Movements Save Democracy?

Lessons from grassroots organizing.

Archon Fung

Nonfiction Microreviews

February/March 2003

Return of the Repressed

The strange case of Masud Khan.

Robert S. Boynton

Taking Ideas Seriously

Can we distinguish political choices from philosophical truths?

Seyla Benhabib

Nonfiction Microreviews

December 2002/January 2003

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