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Essays

• Frank Kermode’s Magnificent Usefulness   Dean Flower   
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• The Sadness That Lurks: Robert Frost and the Poetry of Poverty   Thomas Duddy   

Fiction

• Seven Sons   Cary Holladay   

Poetry

• Woodpecker; Woman in Kuala Lumpur; Bede's Bird   Idris Anderson   

• My Father's Watches   Grace Schulman   

• The Mandala in the Mirror; The Old House; The Heavy Ones; Math Homework   Rachel Hadas   

• To Sir Walter Ralegh; Homage to Tomas Tranströmer   John Greening   

• Ice Machine   Anne Pierson  Wiese   

• Urn   Peg Boyers   

• The Calling of St. Matthew   Annie Boutelle   

• Birthday Poem for James Wright   Andrew Mulvania   

• Two Monasteries   Dimitri V.  Psurtsev   

• St. Cecilia of the Andes, Patroness of Musical Butchers   Orlando Ricardo Menes   

• Celebration in Autumn   Sam Taylor   

• Spies   Roger Williams   

Chronicles

• Summer Music on Two Coasts   Erick Neher   

• Film Chronicle   Brooke Allen   

• A Newly Old Giselle   Marcia B. Siegel   
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• The Ueber-Marionette   Richard Hornby   

• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   

Reviews

• Professorial Declarations   William H. Pritchard   

• A Box of Books   Susan Balée   

• A Modern Man   Bruce Bawer   

• Moby-Duck   Antonio Muñoz Molina   
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• Only Connect   David J. Rothman   

• Epics Manqués   Bruce Whiteman