New Democracy Forum

Think Globally, Lose Locally Theodore J. Lowi

How Bleak?   Susan Rose-Ackerman
Grassroots Approaches   Sanford Lewis
Rethinking the Local    Gerald E. Frug
Pragmatic Devolution    Donald F. Kettl
Without a Net    Jerry L. Mashaw
Local Power   Joel F. Handler 
A New Bismarck   Charles F. Sabel 
Lowi Responds    

Essays

They have the numbers; we, the heights   Harold Bloom
On The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997.

Gorris's Dalloway    Alan A. Stone
An early nomination for next year's Oscars.

Darwin on the Mind   Jeremy C. Ahouse and Robert C. Berwick
Evolutionary psychology is in fashion-but is any of it true?

Fiction

Two Stories Norberto Luis Romero   (translated by H. E. Francis)

Poetry

Poet's Sampler: Alicia Rabins    introduced by Claudia Rankine
The Spacious Firmament   John Ashbery
Going Away Any Time Soon   John Ashbery
Of the Woe That Swallows Hue   Heather McHugh
Arm and Pec (the 2 adillos)   Heather McHugh
Correspondence   Jane Yeh
Underneath (9)   Jorie Graham
These Pretty Years   Lynn Melnick
To the Author of Glare   David Lehman

Book Reviews

Poetry
John Ashbery: The Mooring of Starting Out    reviewed by Calvin Bedient
Frank Bidart: Desire    reviewed by David Gewanter
James Tate: Shroud of the Gnome    reviewed by Max Winter
Poetry Microreviews

Prose
Michel Feher: The Libertine Reader    reviewed by Christopher Cahill
William Everdell: The First Moderns    reviewed by Edwin Frank
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht: In 1926    reviewed by Edwin Frank
Stephen L. Carter: Civility    reviewed by Paul Gediman
Prose Microreviews