Essays

Johnson’s Lives
by William H. Pritchard
Didion’s Dreamwork
by Bruce Bawer

Fiction

The Milk of Human Kindness
by Sarah Waldorf

Poetry

From Lucretius’ The Nature of Things
by A.e. Stallings
Pretty as a Picture; Prosaic Translation
by John Hollander
Country Home Suite
by 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
by Phyllis Hoge Thompson
From Fakhr addin Gorgani’s Vis and Ramin
by Dick Davis
The Little Death; “The morning is the hardest. It is morning”; Ditchdigger
by Liane Strauss
Knowing that some Army engineer; Now that no one is looking at the night
by Adam Kirsch
What’s Beautiful Is Beautiful Because; The Call
by Dennis Sampson
Lord’s Own Anointed; And Be Glad in It
by Kevin Cutrer

Chronicles

At the Galleries
by Karen Wilkin
Dancing on the Outside
by Marcia B. Siegel
Reality Bites
by Bert Cardullo
Americans on the British Stage
by Richard Hornby

Reviews

George Sand: A Life as Theater
by Brooke Allen
Apocalypse Now
by Alan Davis
Read Any Good Books Lately?
by Alexandra Mullen
Praying and Bird-Watching: The Life of R.S. Thomas
by Mark Jarman

Comment

Letter from London
by Richard Tillinghast