Winter 1996 (Volume XLVIII, No. 4) The Pleasures of Reading Criticism by Joseph Epstein The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry Criticism by David Mason May Prescott Fiction by Randolph Thomas Miroir Danjere Criticism by Madison Smartt Bell The Last Neanderthal; Ghost Poetry by Michael Van Walleghen Spinach Days Poetry by Robert Phillips The Winter of Little Snow Poetry by Allen Hoey Silent Men Poetry by Cathleen Calbert The Consequences of Death Poetry by Pattiann Rogers Hadrian Bereaved; The Mustard Seed Garden; The Drunken Sage Poetry by Timothy Murphy The Blue Hat Poetry by Robin S. Chapman Coyote Poetry by Stephen C. Behrendt Montana Pears Poetry by Patricia Goedicke Family Affairs Arts Review by Bert Cardullo Cross-Gender Casting Arts Review by Richard Hornby American Treasures: Whistler, Stettheimer, Scully Arts Review by John Loughery Two-Part Harmony Book Review by Susan Balée Poetry Chronicle Book Review by John Haines Without Color: Zora Neale Hurston Book Review by Tom Wilhelmus Comedy Book Review by Gary Krist Why Ask Why? Book Review by Thomas Filbin Postmodern Ecologizing: Circumference Without a Center Book Review by Harold Fromm