October/November 1998

About the contributors

New Democracy Forum

The Immigrant as Pariah  Owen Fiss

Let the People Decide Richard B. Freeman
First Class  T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Caste Recast  Rogers M. Smith
Let Them Vote Jennifer Gordon
A Right to Dignity  Ulrich Preuss
Beyond Borders  Iris M. Young
A Moral Responsibility  Robin West
Open Borders  Mark Tushnet
Messy Realities  Myron Weiner
Getting Policy Wrong Jagdish Bhagwati
Rights or Privileges?  Muzaffar Chishti
Fiss Responds

Essays

Culture Watch: Queen for a Day   Neil Shister
A skeptical look at the modern wedding ritual.

On Film: Selling (Out) Nabokov    Alan A. Stone
A humorless new Lolita mistakes satire for tragedy.

Sexual Equality vs. Religion: What Should the Law Do?    Cass R. Sunstein

The Big Picture    H. Allen Orr
E. O. Wilson's new book is ambitious, vague, and philosophically naive.

Fiction

The Orphan    Maxine Rodburg

Poetry

Reviews

Poetry
Robert Creeley: Life & Death  Forrest Gander
Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris: Poems for the Millennium  John Palattella
Thylias Moss: Last Chance for Tarzan to Holler  Joel Brouwer
Eric Ormsby: For a Modest God  David Yezzi
Poetry Microreviews

Prose
Thomas Mann (trans. John E. Woods): Doctor Faustus
Franz Kafka (trans. Mark Harman): The Castle   Steve Dowden
Spectral Evidence, The Ramona Case  Edward Greer
Prose Microreviews