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Essays

• Johnson's Lives   William H. Pritchard   

• Didion's Dreamwork   Bruce Bawer   

Fiction

• The Milk of Human Kindness   Sarah Waldorf   

Poetry

• From Lucretius' The Nature of Things   A.E. Stallings   

• Pretty as a Picture; Prosaic Translation   John Hollander   

• Country Home Suite   Sydney Lea   

• Do Not Tell Me That in Another Life You Will Leave Notes for Me Everywhere So That Next Time We Can Find Each Other   Phyllis Hoge Thompson   

• From Fakhr addin Gorgani's Vis and Ramin   Dick Davis   

• The Little Death; "The morning is the hardest. It is morning"; Ditchdigger   Liane Strauss   

• Knowing that some Army engineer; Now that no one is looking at the night   Adam Kirsch   

• What's Beautiful Is Beautiful Because; The Call   Dennis Sampson   

• Lord's Own Anointed; And Be Glad in It   Kevin Cutrer   

Chronicles

• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   

• Dancing on the Outside   Marcia B. Siegel   

• Reality Bites   Bert Cardullo   

• Americans on the British Stage   Richard Hornby   

Reviews

• George Sand: A Life as Theater   Brooke Allen   

• Apocalypse Now   Alan Davis   

• Read Any Good Books Lately?   Alexandra Mullen   

• Praying and Bird-Watching: The Life of R.S. Thomas   Mark Jarman   

Comment

• Letter from London   Richard Tillinghast