Books

Greening the Global Economy

Greening the economy is not only possible but necessary: global economic growth depends on it.
 

Lurching Toward Happiness in America

Claude S. Fischer paints a broad picture of what Americans say they want—and suggests what might finally get them there.

Revaluing the Book

An interview with Richard Nash.

Edit This Page

Is the end of Wikipedia near?

Double Gesture

Poetry in translation rarely gets much of a hearing in America, and Swedish poetry fares even worse.

The Testament of Mr. Cogito

Zbigniew Herbert and the limits of the political.

Microreview: Anna Moschovakis, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone

A remarkable first collection.

Microreview: David Hernandez, Always Danger

Poems that offer a guided tour of the dangers lurking around every corner.

Microreview: Mark Strand, Man and Camel

Poems that play with the high absurd.

Microreview: Kathy Graber, Correspondence

Poems that move from Heroditus to plastic snap beads, from Kafka to empty storage containers.

Microreview: Louise Glück, Averno

Poems that challenge the supposed certainty of myths.

The Speaking Ear

Radi Os by Ronald Johnson.

Into the Electronic Millennium

The first installment of a new series, Terminal Reading.

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