F E A T U R E S
“We Must Forget the Past”
History in the New South Africa
Eric Foner
Dealing With the Past
History in the New South Africa
Diana Wylie
Central Europe Redivivus
George Konrad
Mess
John Hollander
A Drawing
Saul Steinberg
On Rarity and Mischance
Daniel Hall
Not Flat, Not Round, Not There
Don DeLillo’s Novel Characters
Mark Edmundson
F I C T I O N
Coydog
Ann Beattie
Aria
Peter Cameron
P O E T R Y
The Strangers
Submitting
Jorie Graham
Marriage of Two Minds: Received Visions
Harry Matthews
But Then
A Measure of Things
Stephen Sandy
Allen Tate’s Grave
Being on the Job
Dave Smith
Ovid at Land’s End
Debora Greger
Muharram in Srinagar, 1992
Agha Shahid Ali
Stone Flight
Eamon Grennan
Us/Claudia/Talleyrand
Albert Goldbarth
Trees of the New World
Margaret Ditmars
R E V I E W S
Cents and Nonsense
Sociology in the Culture of Currency
James Tobin
Taking Up Serpents
Religion and Rattlers in Appalachia
Guy Davenport
Fiction in Review
Thomas Disch and the Modern Gothic
John Crowley
Poetry in Review
Metamorphoses: Recent Work by Women
Stephen Yenser
Recordings in Review
The Legacy of Louis Armstrong
Gunther Schuller