Spring 2009: Vol. LXII, No. 1

Shrewd Old Abe   Brooke Allen

Hazlitt Redivivus   William H. Pritchard

Bergman's Unseen Masterpiece   Dean Flower

G. O. D.   Chris Gavaler

She   Robert Phillips

Meditation on Poems of the Nine Monks; Chinese Writing; A Zen Sonnet; The Last Ditch; What You Have to Get Over   Dick Allen

Blood Sugar; Pledge; After Reading a Very Good Poem   William Louis-Dreyfus

Clay; Mouse Fur; Either/Or   C. K. Williams

At the Alzheimer's Ward; Speech of the Pacific   Benjamin Jackson

The Museum of Desires   Liane Strauss

Robert Oppenheimer after the War   John Canaday

A Starry Messenger; A Greek Cup at the Met   Daniel Tobin

Understanding Mark Rothko; Reclamation Ground; The Birds of Donegal; Four Poems about the City   Matthew Fluharty

Eternal Places   Peter Cooley

Pigs (see Swine); October Trees   Melissa Range

Ivangorod, Ukraine, 1942   David J. Rothman

The Preacher on Daniel and Ezekiel   Sharon Chmielarz

Dance   Marcia B. Siegel

A fresh look at Bubsy Berkeley’s dance films

Theater   Richard Hornby

A new version of “The Seagull”

Music   Erick Neher

Dudamel and other talents from Latin America

Poets and Their Letters   Bruce Bawer

The letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, etc.

"Given the Gift of Time"   R.S. Gwynn

Clive James, John Whitworth, Dick Allen, Rebecca Foust, etc.

Keats's Afterlife   Denis Donoghue

“Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography,” by Stanley Plumly

Gravity and Grace: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald   Tess Lewis

The engaging Penelope Fitzgerald in her letters; ed. by Terence Dooley

Father/Daughter Match: Bronson and Louisa May Alcott   Alexandra Mullen

“Eden’s Outcasts,” by John Matteson

In the Dust Where My Heart Will Remain   Alan Davis

Roberto Bolaño, José Saramago, Elfriede Jelinek, J. M. G. Le Clézio, etc.

Letter from the Netherlands   Karen Wilkin