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Essays

• On David Foster Wallace's Conservatism   James Santel   
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• Sappho; or, on Loss   Bruce Whiteman   

Memoirs

• Seeing, and Believing   John Hales   

• From Rue Traversière   Yves Bonnefoy   

Poetry

• Anaesthesia   Anne Stevenson   
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• Letter to Seamus   Sara London   

• Rilke in the Mountains   James Applewhite   
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• Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt; Justice; Morning Delivery of the Times; On Turning Sixty   Emily Grosholz   

• The Dancing Satyr; Meaning; Crab in a Mussel Shell   Mark Jarman   
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• One Day at the Opera   Kate Light   

• Ten years, fifteen years; "You have too much investment"; "There's more to this than this"; As Han-shan observed; "Everything," the Zen Master Said   Dick Allen   

• Wild Grapes; Red Bird   Anne Pierson  Wiese   
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• That Ancient History . . .   Henry Weinfield   

• Warts and All   Peter Schmitt   

Chronicles

• Adapting the Classic   Brooke Allen   
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• Generations   Marcia B. Siegel   
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• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   

• Marlowe and Shakespeare   Richard Hornby   

• A Hello, and Some Thoughts on Opera   Harvey Sachs   

Reviews

• Reading Swift   William H. Pritchard   

• Whose Salinger?   Charles Martin   

• Science and Technology, Again   Tom Wilhelmus   

• Lives of a Poet: Denise Levertov   Mark Jarman   
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• Levels of Ambition   David Mason   
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• Death and the Writer   Tess Lewis   

Comment

• Letter from St. Petersburg   Emily Grosholz