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Essays

• Shrewd Old Abe   Brooke Allen   
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• Hazlitt Redivivus   William H. Pritchard   

• Bergman's Unseen Masterpiece   Dean Flower   

Fiction

• G.O.D.   Chris Gavaler   

Poetry

• Clay; Mouse Fur; Either/Or   C. K. Williams   
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• Blood Sugar; Pledge; After Reading a Very Good Poem   William Louis-Dreyfus   
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• She   Robert Phillips   

• Meditation on Poems of the Nine Monks; Chinese Writing; A Zen Sonnet; The Last Ditch; What You Have to Get Over   Dick Allen   
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• At the Alzheimer's Ward; Speech of the Pacific   Benjamin Jackson   

• The Museum of Desires   Liane Strauss   
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• Robert Oppenheimer After the War   John Canaday   

• A Starry Messenger; A Greek Cup at the Met   Daniel Tobin   

• Understanding Mark Rothko; Reclamation Ground; The Birds of Donegal; Four Poems about the City   Matthew Fluharty   

• Eternal Places   Peter Cooley   

• Pigs (see Swine); October Trees   Melissa Range   
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• Ivangorod, Ukraine, 1942   David J. Rothman   

• The Preacher on Daniel and Ezekiel   Sharon Chmielarz   

Chronicles

• Busby Berkeley and the Projected Stage   Marcia B. Siegel   

• Playing Chekhov   Richard Hornby   

• Dudamel, Domingo, Villazón and the New Classical Music   Erick Neher   
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Reviews

• Poets and Their Letters   Bruce Bawer   
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• "Given the Gift of Time"   R. S. Gwynn   

• Keats's Afterlife   Denis Donoghue   

• Gravity and Grace: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald   Tess Lewis   

• Father/Daughter Match: Bronson and Louisa May Alcott   Alexandra Mullen   

• In the Dust Where My Heart Will Remain   Alan Davis   

Comment

• Letter from the Netherlands   Karen Wilkin   
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