Poetry
KATHARINE WHITCOMB Zero
GERI DORAN Hurry the Iowa Cornfields / Tonight Is a Night Without Birds / City of Bridges
JOHN CANADAY The Empty Quarter
RACHEL HADAS Two Paintings Seen Again
MICHAEL COLLIER The Hammer
WILLIAM LOGAN Torcello / Billy Budd / Coastal
BRIAN HENRY Epithelium
CAROL FROST Fear / Endlessness / The St. Louis Zoo
W.S. DI PIERO Police / Tuxedo, New York / My Message Left Next to the Phone
LANCE LARSEN Moji
RICK BAROT The Gecko
Fiction
BARBARA KLEIN MOSS December Birthday
TIM PARRISH Roustabout
MICHAEL CADNUM Champion of the Ocean Floor
RACHEL CANTOR Rosaria 1988
MOLLY BEST TINSLEY White
DEBRA SPARK Chocolate Mice
MICHAEL RUSSELL The Speed of Sound
Revaluations
SCOTT DENHAM Friedrich Torberg: An Introduction
Performance Pieces
FRIEDRICH TORBERG Internal and External Emigration: An Imaginary Dialogue (translated by Scott Denham)
Art
JUSTIN SPRING Venice and the Biennale: A Letter
Interviews
ROB TRUCKS A Conversation with Arnošt Lustig
Provocations
JOHN NEWTON What Are We Doing Enjoying Fiction? or, “Are you sitting comfortably?”
Recollections
JODI DAYNARD Lost Pictures
Reader’s Notebook
ELIOT WEINBERGER Smiles of Beauty
Rediscoveries
SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER Killing the God in Mexico
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ARTIST: Tod Gunter