Spring 1998 (Volume LI, No. 1) The 50th Anniversary Issue George Washington, An Amateur’s View Criticism by Joseph Epstein From the Outside In: A History of American Autobiography Criticism by Susan Balée Ecology and Ecstasy on Interstate 80 Criticism by Harold Fromm Learning from Robert Fitzgerald Criticism by Dana Gioia Hat Check Noir Memoir by Jocelyn Bartkevicius An Unsheltered Island Fiction by Gary Krist The Half-Acre of Millet; In My Grandmother’s Natural Voice: The Cape Cod Blues; Comrade Women—; Burial Rites Poetry by Hayden Carruth My Dead Lover; Unsaid Poetry by Dana Gioia The Abacus of Years; Finitude; Robbie and I Discover Painting Poetry by Emily Grosholz NEAR Travels Far to Find Eros; Snow; The Ice Child Poetry by John Haines Long-Distance Vision Poetry by Anthony Hecht Cycle; Epistle I; Epistle II Poetry by Mark Jarman Skinnydipping with William Wordsworth Poetry by Maxine Kumin After; There Is; The Moon Through the Trees; My Eastern Friend Poetry by Robert McDowell In Transit; Acrostic from Aegina; Untitled Poetry by David Mason Nero in Love; Two Ways; A Shearling Coat; Foursome; The Night-Watchman’s Daughter; State of the Art; A Walk with Bash_ Poetry by Louis Simpson The Vineyard Above the Sea; Fonte Gaia; July on the High Plain Poetry by Charles Tomlinson Crisis in the American Theatre Arts Review by Richard Hornby American Art: The Center and the Edge Arts Review by John Loughery Doing More Work than Most Ten Men Reviews by Karen Wilkin Dangerous Liaisons, or Sex, Lies and Burlesque Arts Review by Bert Cardullo Classical Music and the Tourist Factor Arts Review by Josiah Fisk Early Music in Boston Uncategorized by Robert S. Clark Urban Anthropology Arts Review by Marcia B. Siegel Classic Chandler Book Review by William H. Pritchard Double Talk, Double Dutch, Dutch Chocolate Book Review by Thomas M. Disch Looking Backward Book Review by Dean Flower Fwame Wesistant Suits Book Review by R. S. Gwynn Subdividing Parnassus Book Review by David Mason The Game of Taste Book Review by Bruce Bawer