Summer 2009: Vol. LXII, No. 2

What We Talk About When We Talk About Food   Siobhan Phillips

Robert Burns's Inspired Clay   David Mason

Sugar   Jack Heinz

A Place in Time: Some Chapters of a Telling Story   Wendell Berry

Childbirth, Dove Cottage, the Wordsworths; The Victorian Obsession with the Preservation of Hair   Maxine Kumin

That Night in London; A Cold Call; A Zodiac for the 22nd Century   David Wagoner

Idiot Moon   Sydney Lea

Entryways; The Hedge Weaver; Rehab   Thomas Reiter

Death on the Nile   Alan Sullivan

In Etterbeek; Garland of Holy Roses   Colette Inez

George Foreman in Zaire; Elvin Jones at Midnight; The Injury Wall   Jack B. Bedell

The Chase   Timothy Murphy

Pause for Breath; In an Evening Window   Robyn Sarah

By August, Surely; The Afterlife   Patricia Hooper

Snakes   Helen Conkling

Art   Karen Wilkin

Philip Guston, Leon Kossoff, Larry Poons and others

Theatre   Richard Hornby

Our timid nonprofit theatres

Dance   Marcia B. Siegel

Remembering the Ballets Russes in Boston

Music   Erick Neher

The Metropolitan Opera’s controversial new production of “La Sonnambula”

Citizen Milton   Mark Jarman

New biographies and a new edition of “Paradise Lost”

Five Poets   David Mason

Craig Arnold, David Yezzi, Glyn Maxwell, Anne Stevenson, Maura Stanton

Forster as Broadcaster and Critic   William H. Pritchard

“The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster 1929-1960” vs. his critical writings

On Location   Thomas Filbin

Amélie Nothomb, Billy O’Callaghan, Zoë Heller, Jonathan Littell, etc.

Letter from Venice: The Biennale   Sergio Perosa