Editor's Note

About the contributors to this issue

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NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM

Solving the New Inequality by Richard Freeman

• Through a Gendered Lens Heidi Hartmann
• What Consensus? Paul Krugmann
• Promoting the Common Good Michael Piore
• New Ideas? Frances Fox Piven
• A Liberal Agenda James Tobin
• Old Problem, New Despair James Heckman
• What About Organizing? Ernesto Cortes
• Richard Freeman Replies

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POEMS

Logic Emily Fragos
Poet's Sampler Heather McHugh introduces Jeff Clark
The Hunger of the Lemur Matthew Rohrer
Seasons Among the Tribes (18) Robert Lietz
Gravediggers' April Eric Ormsby

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ESSAYS

This is the Life? Alan A. Stone
A master of British working-class psychodrama, Mike Leigh, reveals a sentimental faith in healing.
Feeling for the Organism Robert C. Berwick
Are living things nothing more than the sum of their gradually-evolved parts?
Art Imitates Life?
Simulating evolution to solve engineering problems
Darwin v. Intelligent Design (Again) H. Allen Orr
The latest attack on evolution is cleverly argued, biologically informed -- and wrong.
A Descamisada Diva Michael Greenberg
Four decades after her death, Eva Perón remains a powerful symbol of Argentina's profound cultural and political divisions.

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FICTION

Jules Jr Michael Jules JrKiki DeLancey Winner of the Fourth Annual Short Story Contest

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REVIEWS

Eli Gottlieb Drown by Junot Diaz
George Scialabba Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse by Sven Birkerts
Theo Emery The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History by Lawrence W. Levine

Robert Creeley Transbluesency, The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones Edited by Paul Vangelisti
Alfred Corn The Figured Wheel by Robert Pinsky
Susan Wheeler Furious Cooking by Maureen Seaton

Brief Reviews: Prose

• Rosemary Pepper, Dead Folks by Jon A. Jackson
• Hardy Long, O, How the Wheel Becomes It! by Anthony Powell
• Eli Gottlieb, Portraint of my Body by Philip Lopate
• Sara Kramer, Kiss & Tell by Alain de Botton
• Joseph F. Shea, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
• Jay A. Fernandez, Pig by Andrew Cowan
• Edwin Frank, Omens of the Millennium by Harold Bloom
• Modern Art in the Common Culture by Thomas Crow
• Aleksandr Blok: A Life by Nina Berberova

Brief Reviews: Poetry

• Stephen Burt, Work Without Hope by John Burt
• Stephen Burt, The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History by Bob Perelman
• Stephen Burt, By Common Salt by Kilarney Clary
• Mary Jo Bang, Captain Lavender by Madbh McGuckian
• Paul Lentz, Simplicity by Ruth Stone
• Mark Wunderlich, Resurrection by Nicole Cooley
• Jennifer Anna Gosetti, Whole Sky by Pamela Kircher
• Timothy Donnelly, The Education of Desire by William Dickey
• Timothy Donnelly, The Dig and Hotel Fiesta by Lynn Emanuel
• Lynn Melnick, Rodent Angel by Debra Weinstein