Man who likes books, Paris, 1963 © André Kertész (from André Kertész, introduction by Anna Fárová, Paragraphic Books, Grossman Publishers, New York, 1966)

2 From the editor's desk

4 Other Voices: Some Reflections on Poets Against the War
Reviewed by Fred Marchant
So consistently do those who make war distort language and discount suffering that poetry’s evocation of the other voice becomes the creation of a countervailing weight on the scales

6 Words of War
by Azar Nafisi
Yet it is precisely during such times, when our lives are transformed by violence, that we need works of imagination

7 Books are Still Better than TV
by Scott Schaffer Duffy
During a 90-day jail sentence for civil disobedience, friends and relatives sent me thirty-one books

8 The Book of Daniel—Coherence from the Patterns of the Past
David Thoreen reviews E.L. Doctotrow
The meaning and value of Daniel’s history is that the individual does matter. The act of remembering—perhaps the essential political act—matters

9 Praise for Alabanza
Kevin Gallagher reviews Martín Espada
An activist poet “confesses” to the lives and struggles of the common people he celebrates

10 Some Rules Not Yet Discovered: Stumbling After William Stafford
by Valerie Bassett
A modest, quiet poetry, and also a poetry of great consequence

11 Face to Face with War
Eoin Gaj reviews Walter Dean Myers
Crawling through a field of grass he comes face to face with the enemy. They stare at each other, neither one of them able to shoot

11 World-Mindedness and Children’s Books
Selected by Lani Gerson
The children together confront the soldiers in the midst of battle. Could the fathers fight again, now, with their children watching?

13 Collateral Language: A User’s Guide to America’s New War
Reviewed by David White
Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear

14 Art Spiegelman, Cartoonist for The New Yorker, Resigns
Interview from Corriere della Sera
From the time that the Towers fell, it seems as if I’ve been living in internal exile

15 Pondering the Media
by Betty Zisk
The news is always a hostage to the regulators. And the regulators of late have gone for a free market style

17 In the Midst of a Murderous World
Zia Mian reviews Hedges and Schell
We can choose cooperative power based on truth and freedom, or we can court our own extermination

18 “Good Questions” with Edward Said
Reviewed by Hilda Silverman
If I succeed in nothing else, it’s to plant the seed of relentless questioning in [my students] that doesn’t remove at the same time the taste for pleasure and for learning

20 Joined at the Head: America’s Relationship with Genocide
Louise Dunlap reviews Samantha Power
To see why perpetrators pursue genocide, and why our country ignores it, calls for a deep look into our profoundly racist roots

22 A World of Nonviolent Action
Elise Boulding reviews An Anthology
Confidence in nonviolence—whether it is called satyagraha, soul force, or love—to overcome even the most violent social evils

23 Mississippi Harmony
by Connie Curry
One of the ‘sleepless ones’ whose fight has been not only against unjust laws and harassment, but against guns and fire bombs as well

24 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Winners
Reviewed by Loretta Williams
An eclectic list that steps beyond common hesitancies

25 Dreams into Action
Yvonne Pappenheim reviews Robin D.G. Kelley
Unless we have a vision of what it means to fully realize our humanity, all the protests in the world won’t bring about liberation

26 Not Your Mother’s Peace Concert: Beats for Peace
by Katrina Weber
The “traditional” peace movement often gets stuck in the ruts of previous campaigns and familiar circles

27 An Old, Healing Music
Elaine Mar reviews Cantiga
First I heard the wooden flute and the Celtic harp; but when I listened more closely, I also heard doumbek and mazhar, djembe, tamborine, castenets, Chinese cymbols

32 Nuclear War: from MAD to NUTS
by John Lamperti
With the ascendancy of the nuclear use theorists, we are approaching the brink

PIECES Events, Opportunities, Gatherings, Campaigns, Resources

SHORT TAKES
Protect our Libraries & Bookstores, p. 12
Is this Sign in Your
Public Library? p. 13
The Beginning of a Victory for the People? p. 16
What Constitutes Genocide? p. 20
Letter, Dale Berry, p. 22
A Rich Resource for Teaching About Globalization, p. 28
A Sampling of Books Recently Received, p. 29
New from the AFSC Video Library, p. 29

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