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April/May 2001

New Democracy Forum: Faith in Politics?

Beyond the Civil Rights Industry  Eva T. Thorne and Eugene F. Rivers 3d

Party Politics Lani Guinier
The Church?  Cathy J. Cohen
Whose Betrayal?  J. Phillip Thompson
Among White Evangelicals Ronald J. Sider
Moral Fervor  Alan Wolfe
New Leadership?  Julianne Malveaux
Low Expectations Ellen Willis
Preaching and Politics Peter Dreier
Heavy Lifting Manning Marable

Thorne and Rivers respond 


Essays

Capture the Moment   Susie Linfield
On the uses and misuses of photojournalism.
Down on Law   William Scheuerman
The complicated legacy of the authoritarian jurist Carl Schmitt.
On Film: Political Football   Alan A. Stone
"Thirteen Days" is a moving recreation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, especially when you knew the principals.


New Fiction Forum

The Kingdom of Moravia   Bill Marx
Alberto Moravia's kinky, subversive realism is back in print.
Allegra Goodman: Paradise Park   Joyce Hackett
Laura Glen Louis: Talking in the Dark  Randall Curb
Clare Boylan: Beloved Stranger  Jennifer Howard
Hugh Nissenson: The Song of the Earth    Roger Boylan
The Last Gentleman   James Crumley
A friend and student remembers Richard Yates.


Fiction

Homecoming   Pauls Toutonghi


Poetry

Poet's Sampler: Pattie McCarthy  introduced by Cole Swensen [PDF only]
The Dream Salon   Katherine Soniat
Sonnet  Charles North
Wild Goose Chase  Sarah Manguso
Eidetic  Harriet Zinnes
The Bedbug Variations  Spencer Short
from Mr. Bondo's Unshared Life  James Cervantes
Half the Half-Nocturnes  Brenda Hillman
The Noise of Time  David Antin
The Task  Paul Hoover


Reviews

Poetry
Franz Wright: The Beforelife  Ethan Paquin
Harper and Walton: The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry  Tina Barr
Michael Palmer: The Promises of Glass  Andrew Zawacki
Joe Wenderoth: Letters to Wendy's  John D'Agata

Prose
Arno Mayer: The Furies   Corey Robin

Poetry Microreviews



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