F E A T U R E S
Letter to a Young Novelist
Mario Vargas Llosa
Translated by Natasha Wimmer
Either Or or And
An Enigmatic Moment in the History of “September 1, 1939”
Nicholas Jenkins
Psalmanazar The Amazing
Ben Downing
“An Holy and Blessed People”
The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism
George McKenna
F I C T I O N
A Poetry Reading
Yehuda Amichai
Translated by Barbara Harshav
Devotion
Adam Haslett
The End of the Good Party
Jean Ross Justice
P O E T R Y
Horace: Book 3, Ode 27
Alice Fulton
The Intellect of Woman
Annie Finch
A Se Stesso
A Petrarchan Sonnet
Dick Davis
Balloon
Patricia Goedicke
Love
Aaron Fagan
Umbra
Dana Goodyear
Darkness at Night
Tom Disch
A Boy Called Vanish
Dick Allen
When He Fell Backwards into His Coffin
Stanley Plumly
23.VI.99
Charles O. Hartman
In Riverside Park
Andrew McCord
Ten Things in the Jar
Jason Zuzga
R E V I E W S
Affective History
Howard R. Lamar
An Imperial Presidency
John Morton Blum
Eugenio Montale’s Last Words
John Taylor
Lawrence’s Major Phase
Thomas L. Jeffers
Fiction in Review
Ian McEwan & David Mitchell
Meghan O’Rourke
Poetry in Review
Alexander, Hix, Leader, Skinner
Stephen Burt
Recordings in Review
Richard Rogers at 100
Paul Gruber
