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Essay

• Personages and the Claim of the Heart in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov   Emily Grosholz   

Memoir

• From Divided Lives: Dreams of a Mother and Daughter   Lyndall Gordon   
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Poetry

• The Gift Bowl   Anne Stevenson   
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• La Serenissima; Jigsaw; The Bird in the Bathroom   Meredith Bergmann   

• Coyotes at Midnight   Stephen C. Behrendt   
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• Pull, Don't Push; Leonids   Thomas Reiter   

• Emissaries of the Sunless Hours; A Benediction for the Bus; The Night Driver Shifts to Days   Michael Spence   

• The Moon Rises over Moscow   Helen Conkling   

Chronicles

• Some Concerts, Some Observations, and a "Crisis"   Harvey Sachs   
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• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   

• The Perils of Adaptation   Erick Neher   
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• Surrounding Chaos   Marcia B. Siegel   

• Motivation   Richard Hornby   
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Reviews

• Ellington   William H. Pritchard   

• Seasons and Reasons   R. S. Gwynn   

• Meditated Stealth: The Life of Marianne Moore   Meg Schoerke   
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• How the Founders Lived   Brooke Allen   

• Dogs and Letters   Susan Balée   

Comment

• Letter from London   Derwent May   
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