February/March 1999

About the contributors

New Democracy Forum: Banishing the Spectre of War

Global Action to Prevent War  Randall Forsberg, Jonathan Dean, and Saul Mendlovitz

Irrational Interests Kosta Tsipis
Missing the Politics  Mary Kaldor
A Return to Peace  Alan Cranston
Too Utopian Lora Lumpe
Forsberg Responds

Essays

Culture Watch: The Car As Hero   Neil Shister
Has any other industrial product so dominated its time?

On Pinochet   Paul W. Kahn
A dictator's extradition case raises difficult questions about international law.

On Becoming an Arab   Leila Ahmed
A personal history.

Oprah's Nightmare   Alan Stone
Beloved suffers from its own artistic pretensions.

The Campaign to Save Mumia Adu-Jamal   Loren Goldner

Forum: Sharing the Wealth

Jeffersonian Captialism    Herbert Gintis
Ownership and Equality    William H. Simon
Crowded House    Sewin Chan, Henry Schneider, and Joseph Tracy
Who Owns Capital?    Gar Alperovitz
Jeff Gates responds

Fiction: Sixth Annual Short Story Contest Runner-up

Love for a Fat Man    Rhoda B. Stamell

Poetry

Poet's Sampler: Joan Cusack Handler introduced by Maureen Seaton
Channel Peter Sacks
Election Peter Sacks
A Sudden Rain in the Green Mountains Stephen Burt
Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes. Joanna Klink
The snow was the future perfect of snow Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Counting the Forests Mark Levine
The Sound of Music Lisa C. Beskin

Reviews

Poetry
Forrest Gander: Science and Steepleflower,There are Three  Tod Marshall
Geoffrey Hill: The Triumph of Love  Andrew Zawacki
Helen Vendler: The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets  Matthea Harvey
Poetry Microreviews

Prose
Harold Bloom: Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human  Robert Atwan
Kai Bird: The Color of Truth  Jeff Jones
Heinrich von Kleist: Penthesilea:A Tragic Drama  Steve Dowden
Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie: Oulipo Compendium  James Sallis
Prose Microreviews