Poetry
MONICA FERRELL In the Binary Alleys of the Lion’s Virus / The Fire of Despair
DEBORA GREGER The Desert of Memory / The Pencil Museum of Cedar Key
LAWRENCE RAAB Vanishing Point
JANE HIRSHFIELD What Is Usual Is Not What Is Always / Dog Still Barking at Midnight
PEG BOYERS Family Portrait
ERIC PANKEY Volatile Spirits / The Narration of Rain
HENRI COLE Necessary and Impossible / Insomnia
JOSEPH CAMPANA 9:55 P.M. / 1:36 A.M. / 3:00 A.M. / 5:225 A.M.
Fiction
DOUG TREVOR Central Square
RACHEL CANTOR Hello, I’m Cora
DAN DEWEESE Bullies
DENNIS MCFADDEN Jimtown Road
GLEN POURCIAU Answer
JOSHUA HENKIN Summer People
Provocations
SUN TZU The Art of War (translated by John Minford)
Recollections
ANNE ATIK Remembering Samuel Beckett
ROBYN SARAH Connections
Literary Archives
WALLACE STEGNER Creative Writing
Music
JORGE MARTÍN Wanted: Opera, Dead or Alive
Revaluations
DAVID BAKER On Whitman’s “Time to Come”
Reports from Abroad
KARIM LOGUE Beneath Kilimanjaro
Reader’s Notebook
ALICE L. TUFEL Going Sane: Dawn Powell’s Vision
Rediscoveries
ANATOLE FRANCE Mad Folk in Literature
HELEN W. HENDERSON New York Before the Revolution
COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter