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Essays

• Maxine Kumin 1925–2014: The Long Approach: A Life in Poetry   Eleanor Wilner   
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• Not Today's Conservative   Brooke Allen   

• Big Love   Cynthia Lewis   
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Fiction

• Sometimes, It's So Hard to Love Her   Torii Grabowski   

Poetry

• The Sound; Bildungsroman   David Mason   

• Death of the Bookstore; Helpless Angels   Tom Wayman   
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• Track; Vespers   Ted Kooser   
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• Un bar aux Folies Bergère   Deborah Warren   

• The Rain; Say What You Like   Liane Strauss   

• The Long Life of Death; Way Station   Michael Spence   
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• Insomnia Redux; Hotel Water Deemed Safe Despite Corpse   Ernest Hilbert   
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• Christmas Eve in Frankfurt   Michael Lavers   

• Sometimes I Think of Louisville; Another Year   Mark Kraushaar   

• Starved; Lamp   Tara Bray   
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• Samuel Beckett Throws Out the First Pitch; The Discovery   Floyd Skloot   

• Misreading   Katharine Coles   

• Natural History: The Origin of Art   Beverley Bie Brahic   

Chronicles

• Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy Restored   Erick Neher   
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• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   

• Remodeling the Repertory   Marcia B. Siegel   
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• Philip Glass, Maximalist?   Harold Fromm   

Reviews

• Merrill's Intimations   David Mason   
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• What Happened to the New Formalism   Mark Jarman   

• I Bite Rooks   Bruce Whiteman   

• Fiction Chronicle   William H. Pritchard   

Comments

• Letter from London   John Spurling   

• Letter from Rome   Emily Grosholz