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Essays

• Among the Barbarians: V. S. Naipaul and His Critics   Elizabeth Powers   
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• A Brief History of the Huron   Kevin Honold   
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Fiction

• The Continental Divide   Bob Johnson   
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• The Final Reflections of Malcolm Melville, His Father's Son   Allen Stein   
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Poetry

• Light in Genoa; Because; Exile   Grace Schulman   
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• Dear Sister; The Hooves   Linda Opyr   

• The Birthday Boy; Salvaged Lines; An Anniversary; The Suicide's House   David Mason   
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• If the Older I Get the Less I Know   Katharine Coles   

• Poem beginning with a line from Paul Monette; Poem beginning with a line from Rilke; Rondeau   Jane Hilberry   

• On Winning My Second Nobel; December Pavan   Tom Wayman   

• Amazing Grace; Persephone Says Goodbye   Maura Stanton   

• Arctolatry   Aaron Poochigian   
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• Respite   Eamon Grennan   

Chronicles

• Retelling Fidelio: David Lang’s Prisoner of the State   Elizabeth Lyon   
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• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   
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• Low-Budget Pleasures   Brooke Allen   

Reviews

• The Poet of the Counting House   Bruce Whiteman   

• A Cast of Individuals   David Mason   

• When the World Gets Weird, We Cry for Sci-Fi (and Fantasy)   Susan Balée   

• Updike Novels   William H. Pritchard   

• The Lyric in Verse and Prose   Mark Jarman   

Comment

• An Appreciation: W. S. Merwin, 1927–2019   Robert McDowell   

• Letter to the Editor: Plath’s Dante in "Mary Ventura"   Matthew Timothy Collins   
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