New Democracy Forum: Do We Need Educational Standards?

Educating a Democracy  Deborah Meier

No Excuses Abigail Thernstrom
Making a Difference  Bob Chase
Expert Opinion  Gary B. Nash
Habits of Mind Linda Nathan
The Case for Standards  Richard J. Murnane
The Standards Fraud  William Ayers
A Sense of Place Theodore Sizer
Deborah Meier responds

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Fiction

Seventh Annual Short Story Contest: Regeneration   Pauls Toutonghi

New Fiction Forum

American Faith, American Violence   Michael Greenberg
Robert Stone's fiction explores the delusions that shape our lives.
Western Voices   Laura Hendrie
Kent Haruf: Plainsong, The Tie That Binds, Where You Once Belonged
Voices from the Old Country   Paul Gediman
Leslie Epstein: Ice Fire Water; Judy Budnitz: If I Told You Once
Judith Grossman: How Aliens Think   Susan Daitch
Kathryn Davis: The Walking Tour   Edwin Frank
Walter Mosley: Walkin' the Dog   Peter McCarthy

Essays

In Defense of Poetry   Marjorie Perloff
Put the literature back into literary studies.
The Sublime Beethoven   Dmitri Tymoczko
Did the composer share an aesthetic principle with Immanuel Kant?
Real Tax Reform   Edward J. McCaffery
The case for a progressive consumption tax.
On Film: The Artist as Survivor   Alan A. Stone
King of Masks is an allegory about the possibility of human connection.

Poetry

Highway to English Suzanne Wise
The Origin of Olive Oyl Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
The Kitchen of Francesca and Paolo Joshua Corey
Rerum Novarum Gerardo Deniz (translated by Monica de la Torre)
Romulus Augustulus Gerardo Deniz (translated by Monica de la Torre)
Making History Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Purgatorio, Canto XXIX Dante Alighieri (translated by W. S. Merwin)

Reviews

Poetry
John Ashbery: Girls on the Run  John D'Agata
Gustaf Sobin: Towards the Blanched Alphabets  Andrew Zawacki
Richard Howard: Trappings  Benjamin Ivry
David Lehman: The Last Avant-Garde  Michael Tyrell
Poetry Microreviews

Prose
Thomas Hine: The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager; Mike Males: Framing Youth: Ten Myths About the Next Generation  Scott Saul
Prose Microreviews