F E A T U R E S
Whitman at Night
“The Sleepers” in 1855
Alan Trachtenberg
Seven Dreams
Thornton Wilder
With an introduction and notes by A. Tappan Wilder
Over Martinis, in Bed, Driving Somewhere
Romulus Linney
On Proust and Chanel
Paul Morand
Translated and introduced by Vincent Giroud
Theater into Film
Notes on One Scene and Two Adaptations
Bert Cardullo
Medical Manners
Dorothea Straus
F I C T I O N
The Taper’s Tale
Benjamin DeMott
Back
J. S. Marcus
One, Whispering Pines
Melanie Fallon
P O E T R Y
How the Dance Came to the City
Eavan Boland
Azores
David Yezzi
The Unrecorded Conversation
Stephen Dunn
She, Tiresias
Barry Goldensohn
E.S.L.
The Song-Book of Justus and Merci
Eight Horatian Odes for the Fourth of July
John Talbot
The Eve of the Festival of Venus
David Wagoner
Crossing the Bar
Michael Schiavo
You Take an Onion
Judith Baumel
The Thousand Thistle Seeds
Eric Pankey
Hymn to Persephone
Craig Arnold
Woman, Mined
Carolyn Creedon
Don’t
Mary Jo Bang
R E V I E W S
Fiction in Review
Bruce Wagner
Dana Goodyear
Poetry in Review
Ammons and Ashbery
Willard Spiegelman
Recordings in Review
Peter Sellars on DVD
Lloyd Schwartz