Spring 2024 (Volume LXXVII, No. 1) ESSAY The Thespians Brooke Allen Full Text MEMOIR Sofa Sessions with Babushka: In the Weimar Years Victor Brombert Full Text FICTION The Wars for Enlightenment Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin Richard Pevear, trans. Larissa Volokhonsky, trans. Full Text POETRY My Other Life; Solstice in Age; Trees Full of Prayers; The Way It Is David Mason Full Text Against the Blue Christopher Buckley Full Text Approaching Zero A. M. Juster Full Text Life Lessons; “Not that he was here . . .” David Lehman Full Text Late Afflictions Natania Rosenfeld Full Text Outside the Door Elise Paschen Full Text Vellum; Forgetting; In Act V, Lear Attempts a Sonnet Brian Culhane Full Text The Treachery of Titles Tom Wayman Full Text The Widow’s Cloud; The Shadowlet Molly Peacock Full Text World Daniel Tobin Full Text ARTS CHRONICLES Best Pictures: A 2023 Recap Erick Neher Full Text At the Galleries Karen Wilkin Full Text The Burden of Music History Becky Y. Lu Full Text A Tale of Two Composers Dana Gioia Full Text BOOK REVIEWS “To be alive, is power”: Emily Dickinson’s Letters Meg Schoerke Full Text “One Day It Was Just No Longer There” Bruce Whiteman Full Text Flanagan’s Tasmania David Mason Full Text Too Much Dazzle William H. Pritchard Full Text Journaling the Plague Years Tom Wilhelmus Full Text NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Notes on Contributors Full Text