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Essays

• Kafka: The Death-Journey   Victor Brombert   

• Charles Dickens: The Show (But-Don't-Tell) Man   Susan Balée   
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Fiction

• The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk   Nikolai Leskov   
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Poetry

• What's to Become of Us?; Doghouse; November Wishes   Dick Allen   

• The Late April Garden   James Applewhite   

• Winter in Garanhuns   Kevin Cutrer   

• What a Poet Wants; Ode to the Butterflies; Where I Went and Cannot Come Again; Gratitude; The Choir   Emily Grosholz   

• Bread   Mairi MacInnes   

• Love   Ethan Stebbins   

• 1964   Robert Cording   

• Wasp   Kimberly Johnson   

• A Glass of Milk   Thomas Reiter   

• Nada   Stephen Gibson   

• Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts I; Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts II; Old News   Maxine Kumin   
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• From Rosary; As one falls ill; Epigram, trans. by Jennifer Reeser   Anna Akhmatova   

• Ice Melts, Wings Grow   Kathy Davis   

Chronicles

• Movie Music at the Philharmonic   Erick Neher   

• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   
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• Earnest   Richard Hornby   

• Re-inscribing the Past   Marcia B. Siegel   

Reviews

• Trilling Matters   William H. Pritchard   
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• Memory Reconstructed   Tom Wilhelmus   

• Reading: Our Past and Present Selves   Brooke Allen   

• More or Less   Mark Jarman   

Comment

• Letter from Indonesia   Christian Desrosiers