Fall 2012 Guide to Subjects African American Law 14, 28, 60, 78, 80 Studies 19, 27, 45, 63 Literary Criticism African Studies 56, 58 45–48, 79, 89 American History 6, 29, Literature 7, 18, 21, 55 35–36, 39–40, 49, 52, 58, Media Studies 84 61, 68, 70, 72, 84, 90 Medicine 62 Anthropology 41, 55–59 Music 43, 75, 86 Architecture 20 Nature 4, 11, 16, 64 Art 24, 33, 44, 54, 71, 79 Pets 3 Asian Studies 24, 39, 54, 87 Philosophy 2, 24–26, 45–46, 59, 71, 81–82, 90 Biography 6, 19, 20, 75, 86 Photography 4 Business 64 Poetry 1, 21–22 Classics 81–82 Political Science 25, 27, 29–32, 34, 36, 59, 76, 82, Current Events 13 –14, 86, 91 18, 73, 84 Psychology 83 Drama 85 Reference 15, 42, 67, 85 Economics 31, 33–34, 64–65, 76, 91–92 Religion 47, 54, 63, 72, 87 Education 37, 41, 87 Science 8, 11–12, 25, 33, European History 38, 42, 49–53, 73–74, 85, 46, 51 88–91 Gay & Lesbian Studies Sociology 34, 56, 60–63, 60, 77 83, 88–89 Health 64 Travel 17 History 10, 12, 16, 28, Urban Studies 27, 83 37–40, 44, 48–50, 52, 77–78, 88 Cover and catalog design by Mary Shanahan Edited by DON SHARE and CHRISTIAN WIMAN The Open Door One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine hen Harriet Monroe founded Poetry magazine in Chicago in 1912, she began with an image: the Open Door. “May W the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius!” For a century, the most important and enduring poets have walked through that door—William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens in its first years, Rae Armantrout and Kay Ryan in 2011. And at the same time, Poetry continues to discover the new voices who will be read a century from now. Poetry’s archives are incomparable, and to celebrate the magazine’s centennial, editors Don Share and Christian Wiman combed them to “The histories of modern poetry and of create a new kind of anthology, energized by the self-imposed limita- Poetry in America are almost interchange- tion to one hundred poems. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive able, certainly inseparable.” —A. R. Ammons or definitive—or even to offer the most familiar works—they have assembled a collection of poems that, in their juxtaposition, echo across a century of poetry. Adrienne Rich appears alongside Charles SEPTEMBER 224 p. 51/2 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75070-5 Bukowski; poems by Isaac Rosenberg and Randall Jarrell on the two Cloth $20.00/£13.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-75073-6 world wars flank a devastating Vietnam War poem by the lesser-known POETRY George Starbuck; August Kleinzahler’s “The Hereafter” precedes “Pru- frock,” casting Eliot’s masterpiece in a new light. Short extracts from Poetry’s letters and criticism punctuate the verse selections, hinting at themes and threads and serving as guides, interlocutors, or dissenting voices. The resulting volume is an anthology like no other, a celebration of idiosyncrasy and invention, a vital monument to an institution that refuses to be static, and, most of all, a book that lovers of poetry will devour, debate, and keep close at hand. Don Share is a poet and the author, editor, or translator of numerous books. Christian Wiman is the author of three books of poetry and a volume of essays. Together they edit Poetry magazine. general interest 1 STEPHEN T. ASMA Against Fairness rom the school yard to the workplace, there’s no charge more damning than “You’re being unfair!” Born out of democracy F and raised in open markets, fairness has become our de facto modern creed. The very symbol of American ethics—Lady Justice— wears a blindfold as she weighs the law on her impartial scale. In our zealous pursuit of fairness, we have banished our urges to like one person more than another, one thing over another, hiding them away as dirty secrets of our humanity. In Against Fairness, polymath philoso- pher Stephen T. Asma drags them triumphantly back into the light. Through playful, witty, but always serious arguments and examples, he vindicates our unspoken and undeniable instinct to favor, making the “Against Fairness is a terrific book. Ste- case that we would all be better off if we showed our unfair tendencies phen T. Asma goes a long way toward a little more kindness—indeed, if we favored favoritism. convincing readers of a challenging Asma makes his point by synthesizing a startling array of sci- argument. Engagingly written, it avoids entific findings, historical philosophies, cultural practices, analytic the ponderousness that so often charac- arguments, and a variety of personal and literary narratives to give a terizes work in philosophy, and I would remarkably nuanced and thorough understanding of how fairness and recommend it to anyone who seems favoritism fit within our moral architecture. Examining everything excessively committed to ‘fairness’ as the from the survival-enhancing biochemistry that makes our mothers love sine qua non of just policy.” us to the motivating properties of our “affective community,” he not —Barry Schwartz, only shows how we favor but the reasons we should. Drawing on think- author of The Paradox of Choice ers from Confucius to Tocqueville to Nietzsche, he reveals how we have confused fairness with more noble traits, like compassion and open- NOVEMBER 200 p., 23 line drawings 51/2 x 81/2 mindedness. He dismantles a number of seemingly egalitarian pursuits, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02986-3 Cloth $22.50/£14.50 from classwide Valentine’s Day cards to civil rights, to reveal the envy E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92346-8 that lies at their hearts, going on to prove that we can still be kind to PHILOSOPHY strangers, have no prejudice, and fight for equalopportunity at the same time we reserve the best of what we can offer for those dearest to us. Against Fairness resets our moral compass with favoritism as its lodestar, providing a strikingly new and remarkably positive way to think through all our actions, big and small. Stephen T. Asma is a distinguished scholar and professor of philosophy in the Department of Humanities, as well as a fellow of the Research Group in Mind, Science, and Culture at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of several books, including On Monsters, Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, and Following Form and Function. 2 general interest JESSICA PIERCE The Last Walk Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives rom the moment when we first open our homes—and our hearts—to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to F watch this beloved animal age and die. The pain of that eventual separation is the cruel corollary to the love we share with them, and most of us deal with it by simply ignoring its inevitability. With The Last Walk, Jessica Pierce makes a forceful case that our pets, and the love we bear them, deserve better. Drawing on the moving story of the last year of the life of her own treasured dog, Ody, she presents an in-depth exploration of the practical, medical, and moral “Decisions about how to treat an animal issues that trouble pet owners confronted with the decline and death toward the end of her or his life are among of their companion animals. Pierce combines heart-wrenching per- the most difficult we have to make, and sonal stories, interviews, and scientific research to consider a wide it’s our responsibility to do the best we range of questions about animal aging, end-of-life care, and death. She can. Our companions trust that we will tackles such vexing questions as whether animals are aware of death, have their best interests in mind. In The whether they’re feeling pain, and if and when euthanasia is appropri- Last Walk, Jessica Pierce considers all of ate. Given what we know and can learn, how should we best honor the the hard questions about sick and old ani- lives of our pets, both while they live and after they have left us? mals. She seamlessly weaves in personal The product of a lifetime of loving pets, studying philosophy, and stories with scientific research to provide collaborating with scientists at the forefront of the study of animal readers with an incredibly valuable behavior and cognition, The Last Walk asks—and answers—the toughest guide—a must read—about when and how questions pet owners face. The result is informative, moving, and to end an animal’s life in the most humane consoling in equal parts; no pet lover should miss it. way possible. I learned a lot from reading this book, and I know others will as well.” Jessica Pierce is a bioethicist and coauthor of Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of —Marc Bekoff, Animals. author of The Emotional Lives of Animals OCTOBER 248 p., 1 halftone, 1 table 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66846-8 Cloth $26.00/£17.00 E-book ISBN-13: 978-0-226-92204-1 PETS general interest 3 “As the flora and fauna of DAVID LIITTSCHWAGER the surface are examined more closely, the interlock- A World in One ing mechanisms of life are emerging in ever-greater Cubic Foot and more surprising detail. Portraits of Biodiversity With a Foreword by E. O. Wilson In time we will come fully to appreciate the magnifi- welve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot cent little ecosystems that is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole Tworld.