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Essays

• The Tale of Genji As a Modern Novel   Brian Phillips   

• Virginia Woolf—"Death Is the Enemy"   Victor Brombert   

Fiction

• Visitors   Luke Mogelson   

Poetry

• Haunted   Dana Gioia   

• The Heronry; Bulgarian Icon of the Last Supper; Outward Bound; Tea Fire   Mark Jarman   

• The Science Behind Snowflakes; Air Guitar   Aaron Fischer   

• Knives   Maria Terrone   

• A Little Homily on the Law of the Diffusion of Gases; The Stone Dreamer   David Wagoner   

• "Vienna, Spring 1962"; At Our Feet   Annie Boutelle   

• Impressions of a Drowning Man   Christopher Bakken   

• Awake   Judson Mitcham   

• Transport; Hope Is Dead; Jell-O   Andrea Cohen   

• Adagio   Frederick Smock   

• Some Years in the History of Love Poetry   Michelle Boisseau   

Chronicles

• From Theater to Opera: Directors Crossing Over   Erick Neher   

• Songbirds   Bruce Bawer   

• The Edinburgh Festival   Richard Hornby   

Reviews

• Death and Immortality   Susan Balée   

• A Life Lived in Interesting Times   Brooke Allen   

• Anthologizing Magnitude   David Mason   

• Shakespeare Prefaced   William H. Pritchard   

• Five New Voices   Lorna Knowles Blake   

• The Isolated Protagonist   Emily Grosholz   

Comment

• Letter from Istanbul   Karen Wilkin