Salmagundi No. 148-149 / Fall 2005 - Winter 2006
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
 Columns The Fate of Ideas: Competition by Marilynne Robinson Letter from Paris: European Values by Tzvetan Todorov Extemporaneities: Sleeping with the Enemy? by Mario Vargas Llosa Politics & Culture: The Price of Irony by Benjamin R. Barber Force Fields: The Kremlin of Modernism by Martin Jay In The Funhouse: Five Fassbinder Scenes by Wayne Koestenbaum Writers & Writing: Elfriede Jelinek by Nancy Huston Letter from Germany: Goodbye America? by Peter Schneider Poems Three Poems by Seamus Heaney Cathartes Aura by Dana Levin Three Poems by Charles Edward Eaton Fiction I Need to Tell Three Stories and to Speak of Love and Death by Mary Gordon Essays Behind the Deluge of Porn by Jim Sleeper Tea at the Plaza by Phillip Lopate Poems Two Poems by Frank Bidart Two Poems by Carl Phillips Toxicology by Henri Cole Two Poems by Dorothea Tanning Self and Soul by James Longenbach Grocery List by Rick Moody Whining by Daniel Harris Freud’s New Love by Adam Phillips From the Diary of Cosima Wagner by Richard Howard Work Song by Robert Pinsky Two Poems by Carolyn Forché A Hundred Years by Carl Dennis Looking for Orwell’s Tomb by John Peck A Boy Drawing by Barry Goldensohn My Orbit by Tom Healy Movie Tunes by Lloyd Schwartz Pets by Julia Slavin Evil Terror and Anarchy by Terry Eagleton Remembering Irving Howe by John Rodden Some Thoughts on Saul Bellow by Norman Manea The Very Rich Hours of Frank Bidart by James Longenbach The End of the American Empire by Thom Hartmann |