Too Much Law, Too Little Justice – A lawyer puts the case for the delegalization of America – by Laurence H. Tribe
The Next American Dust Bowl…and How to Avert It – Organic agriculture moves off the communes and on to the real farms – by William Tucker
The Speer Interogation: Last Days of the Third Reich — Hitler’s fall, as it was described to Americans just three weeks after the war – by John Kenneth Galbraith
On the Death of a Baby – When medicine destroys a life in trying to save it – by Robert and Peggy Stinson
FICTION:
“Ostinato” by Nicholas Delbanco
“The Re-encounter” by Isaac Bashevis Singer
POETRY:
“Luciano Pavarotti Sings ‘O Holy Night'” by Linda Suter
“The Field” by Rosanna Warren
“Thalidomide” by Max Phillips
“Glen Island” by John Allman
“On Hearing That Certain Peat Bogs Contains Perfectly Preserved Bodies” by Susan (Bartels) Ludvigson
“Father” by Amy Boesky
“Man on a Car” by Kate Jennings
Two Poems by Gary Miranda
REPORTS & COMMENT:
Washington: Fat City by James Fallows
Mergers: The Billion-Dollar Game by Steve Lohr
LIFE & LETTERS:
At the Heart of Madrid by Allen Josephs
Styron’s Survivor: An Honest Witness by Benjamin DeMott