Contents
New Democracy Forum
How Can the Democrats Win?
Start with big ideas and long-term vision Rick Perlstein
Responses
Still
Thinking Big William
A. Galston
A Lost Cause Adolph
Reed Jr.
Reality Check Ruy
Teixeira
DIY Politics Dan
Carol
Fusion Politics Daniel
Cantor
Movement Politics Robert
B. Reich
Progressive Blues Michael
C. Dawson
Good Government Elaine
Kamarck
A Flexible Plan Richard
Delgado
Mobilize the Poor Stanley
Aronowitz
The Winds of Change Philip
Klinkner
What’s Wrong with
Short-Term Thinking Larry
M. Bartels
Perlstein Replies
Essays
Russia’s
Quagmire
On ending the standoff in Chechnya Rajan
Menon
Body
of the Nation
Why women were mutilated
in Gujarat Martha C. Nussbaum
The
Chameleon
Does Joschka Fischer really believe in anything? Paul
Hockenos
Fiction
Flight Ishle
Yi Park
Nonfiction Reviews
Photographing
Cruelty
Li Zhensheng's Red-Color News Soldier and Jack Birns’s
Assignment Shanghai Susie
Linfield
Reading
China
Ian Johnson’s
Wild Grass and Wang Hui’s
China’s
New Order Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
New Fiction Forum
Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn
Remembering Harvey Swados Grace
Paley
The
Secret Lives of Men
Pat Barker’s ambitious project James
Hynes
Poetry Reviews
Desire’s Nemesis
Seven new books Calvin Bedient
Poetry in Motion
Peter Gizzi’s Some Values of Landscape and
Weather Andrew Zawacki
The Little War Begins
Lucie Brock-Broido’s Trouble in Mind Larissa
Szporluk
Poetry
Microreviews
On Film
The
End of Remorse?
Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ Alan
A. Stone
Poetry
Yellow
Balloon Rising Edward Bartók-Barata
an animal
meant Carol
Ciavonne
Poem in the Manner
of Friedrich Hölderlin David
Lehman
Poem in the Manner
of Wallace Stevens as Rewritten by Gertrude Stein David
Lehmann
Dislocations: Seven Scenarios Adrienne
Rich
how music is supposed
to be Carol
Ciavonne
Immediately Thinking Steve
Willard
Poet’s Sampler:
Gregg Biglieri Craig
Dworkin
The Tanker Never Moves Terese
Svoboda
Letters
to the Editor
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