INSIDE PUBLISHING
Electronic backlist gold rush
Law professors discover storytelling
Half-baked African explorers.

FIELD NOTES
Re-tuning Jane Campion's piano
Deprivileging lesbian positionality
Marcel Duchamp's final surprise, and more.

BREAKTHROUGH BOOKS
The American West

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CONFERENCES

HYPOTHESES
Jim Holt wonders whether our words refer to this world or another one.

DON'T TALK TO THE HUMANS
Warning: Institutional Review Boards are getting tough on the social sciences. If you want to talk about it, you'd better have permission. And you'd better have cleared your questions in advance...
BY CHRISTOPHER SHEA

RAGE AGAINST THE REGIME
The greatest threat to Slobodan Milosevic isn't NATO. It's Otpor, a student movement that favors anarchic street theater and mock soccer matches.
BY LAURA SECOR

VERSE VS. VERSE
After years of defiantly proclaiming their outsiderhood, some Language poets have joined the academy. Has the latest avant-garde expired? Can the McPoem busters enjoy the Happy Meal of success?
BY ANDREW EPSTEIN