Issue 387 - July-August 2008
Summer Reading Issue
- Calls for Abolition
- Creative Utopias
- Frances Moore Lappé
- Resisting Empire, Resisting Wars
In This Issue
 A review of Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves by Kevin Bales. |
 A Conversation with Science Fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson By Sam Diener |
 In the film Constantine's Sword Carroll calls for Christians to repudiate a legacy of anti-Semitism and religiously promoted wars. |
| From the Editor's Desk | Peacework Co-Editor Sam Diener reviews Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement by Fergus Bordewich and comments on the themes of this issue. | |
| Shifting Our Battleground Mentality: From Belligerence to Grief | Louise Dunlap reviews Yellow Wolf: His Own Story and other "battlefield books" by L.V. McWhorter | |
| Creating Living Democracies: Facing Fear, Engaging Conflicts, Building Communities | Betty H. Zisk reviews Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad by Frances Moore Lappé | |
| The Poetry of Memoir: Questioning Patriarchs, Questioning Ourselves | Regie Gibson reviews The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions by Alicia Suskin Ostriker | |
| Imagining a New Global Eco-Economy: A Future US Presidential Blog Post | Excerpt from the concluding novel in the Science in the Capital series, Sixty Days and Counting. | |
| Utopian Visions of Literature: Avoiding "Tom Swift and the Tsathogguans" | Sarah Monette reviews The Country You Have Never Seen by Joanna Russ. | |
| Writing About War and Peace: Inside a Veterans' Group | Shepherd Bliss describes his participation in a writers' group led by Maxine Hong Kinston. | |
| Empire's Decline: The US, China, and India | Joseph Gerson reviews books on contemporary geostrategic shifts by Morris Berman, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Fareed Zakaria. | |
| Forestalling Another Rain of Ruin: The Need to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | Zia Mian reviews books on the current nuclear threat by Joseph Gerson, Joseph Cirincione, and William | |
| Boyle's Law: Turning up the Heat Against Militarism Through Civil Resistance | Stephen Lendman reviews Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law by Frances Boyle. | |
| A Call To Create a Different Road: Cormac McCarthy's Post-Apocalyptic Warning | David Thoreen reviews The Road by Cormac McCarthy. | |
| The Bright Morning Star Reunion Concert | Thea Paneth reviews the March 2008 concert in Cambridge, MA. | |
| Passionate About Books - and Social Justice | The 2007 Gustavus Myers Book Awards by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. | |
| Bits & Peaces |
