The theme of this issue is the habitability of the earth, and it is in this context, not in the context of the direct slaughter of hundreds of millions of people by the local effects of nuclear weapons, that the question of human survival arises. Includes essays and fiction by Susan Sontag, Russell Hoban, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Leonard Michaels and Jonathan Schell.
In this issue:
Don Bloch: The Modern Common Wind
Russell Hoban: Mnemosyne, Teen Taals, and Tottenham Court Road
Susan Sontag: Elias Canetti
T. Coraghessan Boyle: Mungo Among the Moors
Lisa St Aubin de Terán: Keepers of the House
John L’Heureux: The Anatomy of Desire
Ted Mooney: The Salt Wife
Jorge Ibarguengoitia: The Dead Girls
Leonard Michaels: My Father’s Life
Jonathan Schell: Nuclear Arms and the Fate of the Earth
Russell Hoban: Footplacers, London Transport Owls, Wincer-Boise
The theme of this issue is the habitability of the earth, and it is in this context, not in the context of the direct slaughter of hundreds of millions of people by the local effects of nuclear weapons, that the question of human survival arises. Includes essays and fiction by Susan Sontag, Russell Hoban, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Leonard Michaels and Jonathan Schell.
In this issue:
Don Bloch: The Modern Common Wind
Russell Hoban: Mnemosyne, Teen Taals, and Tottenham Court Road
Susan Sontag: Elias Canetti
T. Coraghessan Boyle: Mungo Among the Moors
Lisa St Aubin de Terán: Keepers of the House
John L’Heureux: The Anatomy of Desire
Ted Mooney: The Salt Wife
Jorge Ibarguengoitia: The Dead Girls
Leonard Michaels: My Father’s Life
Jonathan Schell: Nuclear Arms and the Fate of the Earth
Russell Hoban: Footplacers, London Transport Owls, Wincer-Boise