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Essays

• Hector Berlioz's "To be or not to be"   Peter Bloom   
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• Writing for God: The Life and Work of George Herbert   Mark Jarman   
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Fiction

• From The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin   Alexander Pushkin   

Poetry

• Saint Catherine; Hopes   X. J. Kennedy   

• Auspices; Calendar   William Wenthe   

• Homecoming: To My Family   John Greening   
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• Late Maker of Chariots   Robert McDowell   

• Guavas; At Times an Unknown Star   Jayanta Mahapatra   
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• Like Birders; Corte Madera Watershed   Rebecca Foust   

• Naturalists; The Lost Necklaces; At Fensalden Inn   Lucille Lang Day   

• Gods and Empire   John Balaban   

• Spent   Robyn Sarah   
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• First Negative   Jay Rogoff   

Chronicles

• Theater on Theater   Erick Neher   

• Converging Channels   Marcia B. Siegel   

• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   
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• An Innocent Abroad   Brooke Allen   
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• Conductors, Salt Water, and Pratfalls   Harvey Sachs   

Reviews

• George Eliot and Her Critics   William H. Pritchard   
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• A New Tennyson   Carol T. Christ   
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• Dancing at Auschwitz and Other Reckonings   Alan Davis   

• I Suppose You to Be No Mean Reader, Since You Intend to Read Homer   Bruce Whiteman   

• Native Boundaries   Meg Schoerke   

Comment

• Letter from Tasmania   David Mason