F E A T U R E S
Stitches in Time
Peter S. Hawkins
Eight Portraits
Mariana Cook
La Romanee and the Prince de Conti
Richard Olney
Replicas
Steven Millhauser
The Game in Matanzas
On the Origins of Cuban Baseball
Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
F I C T I O N
Skin Deep
T. M. McNally
P O E T R Y
HIV
Brian Swann
How I Was Told and Not Told
The Bruise of This
Mark Wunderlich
Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565
Richard Howard
Sexy
Joyce Carol Oates
Saffron
Craig Arnold
Across the River and into the Sleaze
Turner Cassity
Ruth’s Garden
Jennifer Clarvoe
Traveling North
Mairi MacInnes
R E V I E W S
The Culture of Chinese Painting
Mary Gardner Neill
Larkin’s Life and Letters
Claude Rawson
Fiction in Review
William Gass’s Masterwork
James McCourt
Poetry in Review
Newcomers and New Strategies
George Bradley
Recordings in Review
The Latest Cast of Opera Stars
Wayne Koestenbaum
