Summer 2025 (Volume LXXVIII, No. 2)

The Lives of Edna Ferber

by Beth Gutcheon

James Baldwin’s Apotheosis

by Brooke Allen

Catullus

by Charles Mcgrath

Zinnias in the Graveyard

by Annie Zaidi

War and Peace

by Brian Culhane

At Sunday Morning AA; Another Summer Solstice

by Ted Kooser

The Gates of War; Rose Petals; Secondhand Prose

by Rachel Hadas

Whale; Murmuration,

by Grace Schulman

July

by Stuart Dybek

Sound & Light Open the Sky; Isles of the Blest; Winter’s End in the Arbor

by W. J. Herbert

We Admire the Kung Fu Nuns; Reading Ruth Stone

by Susan Gubernat

Tumbledown Mountain Burials; After My Father’s Memorial Service; Witching Hour Beneath Moose Mountain

by Henry Hart

Changing Times Chronicle; Braking News

by J. Allyn Rosser

His Glasses

by Joyce Schmid

Voyager 1

by Kieron Winn

“An Extraordinary Transformation”: Mikhail Baryshnikov’s 15 Months at New York City Ballet

by Marina Harss

Celebrating Originality in Broadway’s Musical Lineup

by Erick Neher

At the Galleries

by Karen Wilkin

Rethinking Boulez

by Becky Y. Lu

The Sorrowful Fates of Lyric Poets

by Bruce Whiteman

What Draws Us Together

by Lorna Knowles Blake

St. Aubyn Reconsidered

by William H. Pritchard

Ode to the Indies

by Louise Marburg

Never Stop Writing: Sylvia Plath’s Prose

by Meg Schoerke

Orhan Pamuk, Curated

by David Mason

On Safari

by Susan Balée

Notes on Contributors