F E A T U R E S
Keats’s Appetite
Anthony Hecht
Children’s Literature and the Art of Forgetting
Seth Lerer
Tough Love
Dante Among the Sodomites
Peter S. Hawkins
The Figure Not in the Carpet
Bernard Berenson and Henry James’s Rejection of the Modern in The Outcry
Paula Marantz Cohen
Inkles, Shreds, and Scales
Stephen Yenser
F I C T I O N
The Birthday Party
Elizabeth Denton
The Doctor
Ellen Wilbur
P O E T R Y
Noah’s Flood
The Gawain-Poet
translated by Marie Borroff
A Faun’s Afternoon
Stephane Mallarmé
translated by Richard Howard
Two Poems
“The Admirals” and “A Tree of Serpents”
Charles Tomlinson
Weak Forces
Kay Ryan
The Great Truth
Philip Levine
Conspiracies
Turner Cassity
The Magician Card
Annie Finch
Returning Home Late Sunday Night
Daniel Anderson
The Implications of War
Anna George Meek
Tomorrow’s Living Room
Jason Whitmarsh
Moon Mask
Elena Karina Byrne
(Our Word)
Nadia Herman Colburn
Gibbon Motion
Deborah Warren
Ode to W. E. Diemer
The Inventor of Bubblegum
Barbara Hamby
R E V I E W S
Wide Awake with Anxiety
Nicholas Howe
Fiction in Review
Shirley Hazzard
Robyn Creswell
Poetry in Review
Philip Larkin
Nigel Alderman
Recordings in Review
Opera in the Vernacular
Patrick J. Smith
Film in Review
Angels in America
Patrick Giles