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Essays

• "What Might Have Been and What Has Been": How T. S. Eliot Looked at Lives   Lyndall Gordon   
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• Life Itself   Bruce Bawer   
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• Mind and Mindlessness in Jane Austen   Timothy Peltason   

Memoir

• Homesick for Sadness: A Childhood in Incompletion   Jenny Erpenbeck   
  Susan Bernofsky    Full Text

Poetry

• Choruses from the Lost Plays of Sophocles   David R. Slavitt   

• Boneyard   Robert L. Penick   

• The Black Notebook   Rick Hilles   

• The Storm; The Hare; Near Miss in Antwerp   Mairi MacInnes   

• The Asphodel Plain; Act of Faith; Hospice   Edmund Keeley   
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• The Notch; Bright Juice; Nuns Fret Not; Dirt   Rebecca Foust   
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• Les Chats, by Charles Baudelaire   Bruce Heiden   

• The Evidence of Four March Evenings; Wart & Co.   Brendan Galvin   

• Silence; The Lecture   Jeanne Murray Walker   

• The Chute, 1970   Judith Harris   

Chronicles

• Theatre of the Absurd   Richard Hornby   

• Was . . . and Is   Marcia B. Siegel   
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• Men at Work   Erick Neher   
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Reviews

• Ezra Pound   William H. Pritchard   

• Ariel and Co.   David Mason   

• Living in Earnest   Alexandra Mullen   
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• Literary Fiction   Tom Wilhelmus   

• On the Tennessee (Williams) Trail   Susan Balée   
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Comments

• Letter from the Western Isles   Mark Jarman   

• Letter from Israel   Karen Wilkin