New Writers Issue

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Essays

• William Maxwell's Palace   Mara Naselli   

• Antonio Muñoz Molina: Narrative Across Time   James Santel   
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Fiction

• Train to Harbin   Asako Serizawa   
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• Why Wait? Why Bother?   Edward Porter   
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• Our Lady of Perpetual Help   Lauren Schenkman   
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Poetry

• "The Bright Obvious Stands Motionless"; Tap; On Visiting Writers' Graves   Cally Conan-Davies   

• Sorrow   William Louis-Dreyfus   
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• Near Hickory; Car   Trent Busch   

• Herring Station   Katherine Robinson   

• Coral Gables   Guillermo Bleichmar   

• Watermelon Day   Anne Nance   

• Wertheim Park, Amsterdam; Camels at the Amsterdam Highway; Eve Sleeps   Susan de Sola   
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Chronicles

• Actors as Readers   Richard Hornby   

• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   

• Richard Linklater's Sculpture in Time   Erick Neher   

• Where You Find It   Marcia B. Siegel   
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• San Francisco's Postmodern Dance Pioneers   Rachel Howard   
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Reviews

• Teaching Shakespeare   William H. Pritchard   

• You Must Be Suffering from Poetry   Bruce Whiteman   
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• The Fame of Derek Walcott   David Mason   
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• Magic Words   Thomas Filbin   

• Double Lives   Carol T. Christ   

Comment

• Letter from Italy   Susan Balée   
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• Letter to the Editor   Lyndall Gordon