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Contents

New Democracy Forum: What's Driving Consumption?

The New Politics of Consumption  Juliet Schor

Market Failures Robert H. Frank
The Stone Age  James Twitchell
The Price is Right?  Jack Gibbons
Quality of Life Clair Brown
The Personal Level  Betsy Taylor
Postmodern Markets  Douglas B. Holt
A New Puritanism? Craig J. Thompson
Too Much Economics  Michele Lamont and Virag Molnar
Leisure for All  Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein and John Schmitt
Juliet Schor Responds

Essays

Primo Levi's Last Moments   Diego Gambetta
A new look at the Italian author's tragic death twelve years ago.

The Two-Hundred Years War   G. M. Tamas
Searching for the origins of the Kosovo conflict--in the eighteenth century.

Identity Politics   Noah Benjamin Novogrodsky
Forced deportations are turning the Ethiopian-Eritrean border war into ethnic conflict.

On Film: Eric Rohmer's Canvas   Alan A. Stone
The Autumn Tale finds a world of beauty in the lives of women.

Culture Watch: For Whom the Bells Toll   Neil Shister
From post-literary America, ringing praise for Ernest Hemingway.

Fiction

Duet   Pamela Erens

Poetry

Poet's Sampler: Jordan Davis introduced by David Shapiro
Laurie's House Jamey Dunham
The Mutiny on the Bounty Karri Harrison
Deconstructing Stefan, or Destructing Stefan Emma Straub
At first you don't succeed Steven Monte
Happy Jack's on Our Saturday Morning Elizabeth Macklin
The Definite Article Elizabeth Macklin
Rainbows Jesper Svenbro
Saint-Merri Jesper Svenbro

Reviews

Poetry
Medbh McGuckian: Shelmalier
Ciaran Carson: The Alexandrine Plan
Ciaran Carson: The Twelfth of Never  Thomas O'Grady
Charles Simic: Jackstraws  Brian Henry
Claudia Rankine: The End of the Alphabet  Calvin Bedient
Poetry Microreviews

Prose
Ralph Ellison: Juneteenth  Scott Saul
Prose Microreviews