Volume LXI Number 2, Summer 2008

ESSAYS

Two Forgotten Poets of the Twenties:

Bishop’s Time
WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD

FICTION

A Desirable Woman
WENDELL BERRY

POETRY

How Sullen She’s Become; News from the Front; Enigma; Reflection; Bistro
RHINA P. ESPAILLAT

Elegy for an English Teacher; A Cold Day in Paradise
DEBORA GREGER

Baghdad Bar
CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS

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ALFRED CORN

The Orchard Thief; Magpie
TERENCE DOOLEY

Hexameter; The King’s Question
BRIAN CULHANE

Motley; Becoming; The Poet Laureate’s Cold Medicine
ANNIE BOUTELLE

Gift; Holding Action; Street
JEANNE MURRAY WALKER

CHRONICLES

Theatre
RICHARD HORNBY

Shaw’s “Major Barbara” at London’s National Theatre

Dance
MARCIA B. SIEGEL

San Francisco Ballet’s 75th anniversary season

Art
KAREN WILKIN

William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Rackstraw Downes, and Ramak Fazel

REVIEWS

Rhetorical Questions
BROOKE ALLEN

On eloquence and the decline of Presidential speeches

Music History Lite
JOHN SIMON

“A Student’s Guide to Music History” by R. J. Stone

Imaginary Friends
THOMAS FILBIN

Pat Barker, William Trevor, Gina B. Nahai, Elizabeth Hickey, etc.

Fred Wander: Scheherazade of the Shoah
TESS LEWIS

“The Seventh Well” by Fred Wander

Should We Both Tremble?
DEAN FLOWER

“Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life” by Philip Davis

Early Maxwell
BRUCE BAWER

The Library of America’s “Early Novels and Stories” of William Maxwell

Poetry Chronicle
JOHN GREENING

Eavan Boland, Tom Disch, Anne Stevenson, Mary Jo Salter, etc.

COMMENT

Letter from London
MICHAEL BARBER