Summer 2019 (Volume LXXII, No. 2) Essays Among the Barbarians: V. S. Naipaul and His Critics Elizabeth Powers Full Text A Brief History of the Huron Kevin Honold Full Text Fiction The Continental Divide Bob Johnson Full Text The Final Reflections of Malcolm Melville, His Father's Son Allen Stein Full Text Poetry Light in Genoa; Because; Exile Grace Schulman Full Text Dear Sister; The Hooves Linda Opyr Full Text The Birthday Boy; Salvaged Lines; An Anniversary; The Suicide's House David Mason Full Text If the Older I Get the Less I Know— Katharine Coles Full Text Poem beginning with a line from Paul Monette; Poem beginning with a line from Rilke; Rondeau Jane Hilberry Full Text On Winning My Second Nobel; December Pavan Tom Wayman Full Text Amazing Grace; Persephone Says Goodbye Maura Stanton Full Text Arctolatry Aaron Poochigian Full Text Respite Eamon Grennan Full Text Chronicles Retelling Fidelio: David Lang’s Prisoner of the State Elizabeth Lyon Full Text At the Galleries Karen Wilkin Full Text Low-Budget Pleasures Brooke Allen Full Text Reviews The Poet of the Counting House Bruce Whiteman Full Text A Cast of Individuals David Mason Full Text When the World Gets Weird, We Cry for Sci-Fi (and Fantasy) Susan Balée Full Text Updike Novels William H. Pritchard Full Text The Lyric in Verse and Prose Mark Jarman Full Text Comment An Appreciation: W. S. Merwin, 1927–2019 Robert McDowell Full Text Letter to the Editor: Plath’s Dante in "Mary Ventura" Matthew Timothy Collins Full Text