Poetry
GEORGE BRADLEY The Serpent’s Seed
JYNNE DILLING MARTIN Reasons to Consider Setting Ourselves on Fire / Some Important Clarifications / Revelations
LINDA GREGERSON Dido in Darkness / The Chapel Doom / The Turning
DAVID LEHMAN The Red Death
SUSAN HAHN Crosses
CARL PHILLIPS The River in Motion and in Stillness / Storm
SUSAN WOOD The Lord God Returns
MARY CORNISH The Lane / Lotus Feet
JOHN KINSELLA Canto of the Floodway: more irregularities of road travel
LAURA KASISCHKE Almost There / Riddle
HAYES DAVIS Bargain Apocalypse
Fiction
STEPHEN O’CONNOR Bestiary
CARLA PANCIERA No Sooner
ARTHUR SCHNITZLER Lieutenant Gustl
(translated from the German by Margret Schaefer)
JAN PENDLETON Director’s Cut
SUSAN JACKSON RODGERS Outside
GREGORY SPATZ Happy for You
SAGE MARSTERS Bear Story
Special Feature: Stanley Elkin Revisited
RICHARD TRISTMAN Tragic Soliloquy, Stand-up Spiel
DAVID C. DOUGHERTY Prospects of Recovery: Two Unpublished Sketches by Stanley Elkin
STANLEY ELKIN Baseball Story / Colin Kelly’s Kids
Reflections and Reminiscences
HELEN VENDLER : JOHN IRVING : ROBERT COOVER : ROBERT PACK : KATHRYN KRAMER : STANLEY BATES : WILLIAM GASS : ROBERT COHEN : DAMIEN WILKINS : CHARLES BAXTER
Film
ROBERT B. RAY Film Studies and the Problems of the New Century
Revaluations
MARCUS KLEIN What to Make of Maisie
Reflections
THOMAS MANN My Times (translated from the German by Scott Denham)
Provocations
MYLES WEBER Whose War Is This?
Rediscoveries
LAURENCE OLIPHANT Wild Elephants
COVER ARTIST: Tim Fitts