January 2008

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Volume 96, No. 1
January 2008
The Yale Review

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F E A T U R E S

Herodotus
The Great Invasion and the Historian’s Task
John Burrow

Edgar Bowers
His Little Book and All the Rest
Russell Fraser

“Taking Care of the Future”
Business Letters
Wallace Stevens
Edited and Introduced by Siobhan Phillips

Rauschenberg’s Bed
Rick Barot

Tintoretto
The Alter Ego of Venice
Robert Hahn

The Difficult B.B.
A Rethinking
Bert Cardullo

F I C T I O N

Bola de la Fortuna
Jonathan Tel

P O E T R Y

White Note
Nocturne I
Nocturne II
The Making of Amber
W. S. Merwin

The Coronation of Clovis (Tournai, 481)
Deborah Warren

Water Cut off and Stilled
A. F. Moritz

A Swipe of Slick’s Hook
David Bottoms

Broken Sonnet: Divorce
Michael Spence

If the Tatooed Woman Just Ahead of Me …
If Even Under the Pine Whose Roots …
H. L. Hix

Ode on My Belly Button
Kimberly Johnson

R E V I E W S

Enigmas of Enigma
Alastair Fowler

The Critic in Exile
Rediscovering Erich Auerbach
Erik Linstrum

Fiction in Review
Michael Chabon
Andrew Elfenbein

Poetry in Review
Disch, Cassity, Wetzsteon
David Yezzi

Recordings in Review
Robert Craft
Dewey Faulkner

Music in Review
The Tristan Project
Reese Thompson

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