F E A T U R E S
Mississippi
William H. Gass
Pop Theater
Jed Perl
Read Only to Start Your Own Team
Emerson on Creative Reading
Robert D. Richardson, Jr.
Unwritten Chapters
Paul Horgan
F I C T I O N
Christmas Tree
William Faulkner
with a note by Patricia C. Willis
P O E T R Y
An Offering for Târâ
Gary Snyder
For Appearances
Jordan Smith
Two Poems
Peter Sacks
Paradigm Shift
Arguments of Silence
Rachel Hadas
Apostasy
Henri Cole
R E V I E W S
We Will Go Down the Line Together
The Origins of the American Railroad
James Alan McPherson
Fiction in Review
The Novels of Louis Begley
Jane Mendelsohn
Poetry in Review
Formal Feelings: New Books by Women
Langdon Hammer
Recordings in Review
A Survey of Historical Piano Recordings
Igor Kipnis