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Essays

• A Being in Time: On the Poetry of Frederick Morgan   David Mason   

• Gods, Gurus, and the Search for the Holy Grail: Bach Recordings from 2018   Elizabeth Lyon   
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Fiction

• Three Other Places   Olga Medvedkova   
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• Bear's Change   Mark Jacobs   

Poetry

• Season of Advent; “The scene in the stable”; The Voice; The Thaw   Frederick Morgan   

• Just a Joe; Compunction   Sydney Lea   

• “In a Sentimental Mood”; Brother Ass; Manual Typewriter; Palms   Michael McFee   
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• Against the Blues; Egret; Bathers   Peter Makuck   

• In This Country   Jayanta Mahapatra   

• From "A Japan Journal"   Frederick Turner   
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• The Metamorphosis of the Plants   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   

• One Thing I Know About the Dead; Secrets   William Louis-Dreyfus   
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• The Alibi   Ștefan Augustin Doinaș   
  John Balaban, trans.   

• On the Screened-In Porch   James Applewhite   

Chronicles

• Artist, Not Muse   Brooke Allen   

• Theater Big and Small: The Fall Season in New York   Erick Neher   
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• At the Galleries   Karen Wilkin   
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• “Welcome to the moment!”   Henning Rübsam   

Book Reviews

• “The Last Survivor of the Old Culture”   Bruce Whiteman   
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• Kingsley Amis’ Music   William H. Pritchard   

• Ottoman Dreams, Balkan Identities   Will Harrison   

• Hand-Held Device   Rachel Hadas   
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• Digging Up Diderot   David Mason   
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• Sex, Death, and the Gods   Robert Archambeau