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