F E A T U R E S
Dante The Florentine
R. W. B. Lewis
Still Here
Dante After Modernism
Peter S. Hawkins & Rachel Jacoff
Fires of the Mind
A Memoir
Jacobo Fijman
translated by Melanie Nicholson
A Gentlemanlike Training
James Fenimore Cooper at Yale
April Allsiton & Pamela J. Schirmeister
Harems and Ceremonies
Edith Wharton
Prelude to Independence
Dean Acheson
F I C T I O N
Märchen
Katherine L. Hester
Properties of Language
David Shields
P O E T R Y
Song, Son Sordino
John Hollander
The Argument About Difficulty
Rachel Hadas
In the Barn
Ron Rash
Pennant
Eliza Griswold
Duration of White
Reginald Shepherd
The Painter’s Atelier (Nonda)
Stephanos Papadopoulos
The God of Wine
Alan Michael Parker
More Delicacies
Molly Bendall
One Thing Told from Another
Max Winter
Self-Pity’s Closet
Michelle Boisseau
Backstage
David Wagoner
R E V I E W S
Bard on Bard
Anthony Hecht
Fiction in Review
Prey: Joy Williams & Janet Kauffman
Molly McQuade
Poetry in Review
Michael S. Harper & Yusef Komunyakaa
Michael Thurston
Recordings in Review
Steely Dan
Daniel Hall