Vol. 27, Nos. 3–4 | Summer 2002

New Democracy Forum: Ruled by the Market?

Reclaiming the Commons   David Bollier

Public Health Marcia Angell
The Place of Politics  Robert W. McChensey
Common Property?  Tom G. Palmer
A Useful Framework? Nicholas Johnson
Digital Democracy  Jeff Chester and Gary O. Larson
Rhetoric of the Commons  Richard D. Parker
Intellectual Enclosure  Richard Stallman
The Cost of Community  Margaret Kohn
David Bollier Replies

New Fiction Forum

Gitta Honegger: Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian
Thomas Bernhard: Gathering Evidence; Correction; Gargoyles    Jason M. Baskin
Lucius Shepard: Valentine
David Gilmour: Sparrow Nights   Richard Burgin
Nora Eisennberg: The War at Home   Jill Eisenstadt
Hans Koning: Zeeland, or Elective Concurrences   Roger Boylan
Under the Influence   Rick Moody
  The intoxicating power of Kate Braverman's first novel.

Exchange

Essays

Violence, Terror, and Politics as Usual   Charles Tilly
  An epochal change in the nature of collective violence.
Fenced In   Helena Cobban
  As Arafat declines and Israel's grip tightens, despair in the Middle East.

On Film

Innocents Abroad   Alan A. Stone
   Randall Wallace's We Were Soldiers makes a virtue out of political naïveté.

Poetry

Fiction

St. Ursula's Girls Against the Atomic Bomb    Valerie Hurley

Reviews

Poetry
Forrest Gander: Torn Awake
Cole Swensen: Such Rich Hour   Barbara Fischer
Marjorie Perloff: 21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics
Charles Bernstein: With Strings   Yunte Huang
Christian Bök: Eunoia  Brian Kim Stefans
Chelsey Minnis: Zirconia
Catherine Wagner: Miss America   Cole Swensen

Prose
William A. Dembski: No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased without Intelligence    H. Allen Orr

Microreviews