Autumn 2003 (Volume LVI, No. 3) The Curse of Fred by George Watson Invitation to Ground Zero; On the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of a Country Wedding by William Jay Smith Reality and Virginia Woolf by Brian Phillips The Hurt Man by Wendell Berry Nordic Novels by Bruce Bawer Explanation; Love by William Louis-Dreyfus Odes of Horace by Len Krisak Firstfruits by Morri Creech These Days I Wake; Second Spring by Elizabeth Knies What You Do Next by Nancy Richard Being Earnest by Roger Sale Rodney Fallen: A Parable by Sydney Lea A Cautionary; “The Country Is, as Yesterday, Beautiful in the Extreme” by Dick Allen The Car Salesman; The Moment by Jane Hilberry Your Return; Seeing a Fox; Walking at Dusk by Linda Opyr Truth and Consequences: The Writings of Sybille Bedford by Tess Lewis Metatheatre by Richard Hornby The Glory of Our Age: Delacroix’s Late Work by Karen Wilkin Shoot the Piano Player by Bert Cardullo The Prokofiev Marathon by Robert S. Clark The Presence of Pushkin by Richard Pevear The Best Words in the Best Order by Robert Phillips Heroes, Humbugs, and Hypocrites by Alexandra Mullen Modernism Without the Dogmas by Thomas Filbin The Dream of Travel by David Mason Midwestern Boy by William H. Pritchard