70th Anniversary Issue

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• Letters from Athens: Logbook I, Days of 2016 (and moments before and after)   A.E. Stallings   
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Essays

• From The Beauty of the World, Part II   Jean Starobinski   

• Places Lost and Found   Tess Lewis   

Memoir

• Mr. Nobody   Antonio Muñoz Molina   
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Fiction

• Brides in the Sky   Cary Holladay   
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• A Clearing   Wendell Berry   
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Poetry

• The Oscillation of the Waves   Michael Spence   
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• The Underworld   Dana Gioia   
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• Elegy   Emily Grosholz   

• Pacific Light; The Lover Making Tea   David Mason   

• The Conservatory   Idris Anderson   

• My Father Returns as a Luna Moth; A Happy Childhood; Blackout Good Friday Night; Elegy of Mixed Feelings   Mark Jarman   
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• Somewhere Else Entirely   Ruth Fainlight   
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• A Game of Chess; Wounded Knee, South Dakota   Cally Conan-Davies   

Chronicles

• Summer at the Shaw Festival   Erick Neher   
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• Tricks and Troupers   Marcia B. Siegel   
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• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   
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• Giving Voice Through Music: Performative Expressions of Nature, Folk, and the Black Experience   Elizabeth Lyon   
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Reviews

• Madison: Not the Musical   Brooke Allen   

• Agee, the Movies, and Me   William H. Pritchard   

• Ducks, Virgins, Snakes and Witches   Susan Balée   
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• Darwin's Really Dangerous Idea   Dean Flower   

• How Little Writing Rescues   Bruce Whiteman   

• "I know the bottom, she says": Sylvia Plath's Correspondence 2   Meg Schoerke   
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