Autumn 2012 (Volume LXV, No. 3) The French Issue Essays Diderot: A Geography of Chatter by Jean Starobinski, Richard Pevear, Trans. Free On Receiving the Merck-Serono Prize by Jean Starobinski, Richard Pevear, Trans. Free The Battle for Joan by Frederick Brown Subscribers Only The Songs of Thibaut de Champagne (1201–1253) by Anne Ibos-augé, Emily Grosholz Subscribers Only Fiction From Les Vierges by Irène Némirovsky, Linda Coverdale, Trans. Subscribers Only Poetry Villon’s Epitaph (Ballade of the Hanged Men) by François Villon, Richard Wilbur Free La rue Soufflot by Valery Larbaud, Richard Pevear, Trans. Subscribers Only From The Songbook of the King by Thibaut De Champagne, Emily Grosholz Subscribers Only Reviews Phantasmagoria of French Fiction by Tess Lewis Subscribers Only The Compassion, the Desire by Bruce Whiteman Subscribers Only Chronicles & Reviews At the Galleries by Karen Wilkin Subscribers Only Mnouchkine by Richard Hornby Subscribers Only Summer Opera in Santa Fe by Erick Neher Subscribers Only The Matrix of Time by Susan Balée Subscribers Only Portrait of a Genius…But by William H. Pritchard Subscribers Only Dying to Write Poetry by David Mason Free Elaine Pagels’ Revelations by Brooke Allen Subscribers Only Comment Letter from London by Derwent May Subscribers Only