Autumn 2001 (Volume LIV, No. 3)

The French Issue


Letter from Paris

The Station of the Cow, by Mohammed Dib

The Station of the Cow, trans. by Linda Coverdale

The Tears of Solitaire, trans. by Linda Coverdale

The Tears of the Solitaire, by Monique Agénor

Only the Inaccessible Flowers: Poetry and Prose of Philippe Jaccottet

Only the Inaccessible Flowers: Poetry and Prose of Philippe Jaccottet, trans. by Louis Simpson

The Long Proustian Shelf

Madame de Staël: The Inveterate Idealist

Napoleon’s Army After the Fall of Moscow; How It Happened; Letter from Normandy; Barefoot; Nights in June, by Victor Hugo

Napoleon’s Army After the Fall of Moscow; How It Happened; Letter from Normandy; Barefoot; Nights in June, trans. by Brooks Haxton

To the Voice of Kathleen Ferrier; The Shoulder; The Farewell; The Edge of the Woods; The Curved Mirror; The Well, trans. by Emily Grosholz

To the Voice of Kathleen Ferrier; The Shoulder; The Farewell; The Edge of the Woods; The Curved Mirror; The Well, by Yves Bonnefoy

Molière, the Servant with No Masters

French Painting in Williamstown

Dancing in the Dust

Memories

All About My, Your, Their Mother

Early Chagall, Late Gehry

Boswell’s Turn

The Law of Desire

Reading A. S. Byatt Reading

Borne Ceaselessly into the Past

The Arabian Nights of Gertrude Bell