April/May 2003 NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM Islam and the Challenge of Democracy Can individual rights and popular sovereignty take root in faith? Khaled Abou El Fadl Ten Responses Practice and Theory John L. Esposito Change from Within Nader A. Hashemi The Best Hope Noah Feldman Democracy and Conflict Jeremy Waldron The Priority of Politics M.A. Muqtedar Khan The Importance of Context A. Kevin Reinhart Questioning Liberalism, Too Saba Mahmood Too Far from Tradition Mohammad H. Fadel Popular Support First Bernard Haykel Islam Isnt the Problem William B. Quandt Khaled Abou El Fadl Replies ESSAYS Weapons of Mass Confusion A security strategy doomed to failure Owen R. Cote, Jr. The Blame Game The real problem behind the 2000 election George Scialabba City Poems Ten weeks with the East Harlem Poetry Project Maureen N. McLane SHORT STORY A Wrong Thing A. L. Kennedy NEW FICTION FORUM New Pioneers of the American Short Story Elizabeth Cranes When the Messenger Is Hot and Marshall Boswells Trouble with Girls Tom Bissell Situationist Noir Jean-Patrick Manchettes Three to Kill and The Prone Gunman Jennifer Howard A Dutchman with Very Dark Eyes and Hair You Could Call Raven-black On writing Duke of Egypt Margriet de Moor POETRY You Can Be the Subject of Wild Admiration in Ten Days Cal Bedient from Blasted Fields of Clover Bring Harrowing and Regretful Sighs Mark Bibbins Matelot Turnstile Margaret Funkhouser Momentary Gardens Claire Hero Unrelenting Joan Houlihan Sea by Dusk Joanna Klink America: Before the Last War Peter Jay Shippy Seattle, Third and Pike Liz Waldner Accumulative Ken White Poets Sampler: Greg Wrenn D. A. Powell Credo Andrew Zawacki REVIEWS Nonfiction Nonfiction Microreviews Poetry New Poets on the Block A roundup of first and second books Stephen Burt The Poet at War Tom Paulins The Invasion Handbook Benjamin Paloff Taking Measurements of Will and Circumstance Garrett Kallebergs Some Mantic Daemons and Psychological Corporations Fred Muratori Poetry Microreviews ON FILM Twenty-first Century Woolf Scott Rudins The Hours Letters to the Editors |