F E A T U R E S
Old Foes with New Faces
William Gaddis
Ideal Worlds
The Idyll of the Russian Intelligentsia
Priscilla Roosevelt
Commonplaces
Berel Lang
F I C T I O N
Gods
Vladimir Nabokov
A Chinese Geisha
Paul West
P O E T R Y
Rhapsody on Czech Themes
James Merrill
Cantilever
I, Too
John Ashbery
Cold Comfort
Jessica Hornik
Seattle to Boston
Joanie Mackowski
In a Taxi in Kashmir
Andrew McCord
The Behavior of Birds
Ruth Whitman
Native Tongue
Bruce Bond
Songs My Mother Taught Me
John Koethe
R E V I E W S
Disciplining the Disciplines
Two Views
Howard Lamar
The Centenary of Jean Renoir
Gilberto Perez
Clutching Their Past about Them
Mary Price
Adding Up Beauty and Truth
Edward T. Cone
Fiction in Review
New Novels by Jane Smiley and Anne Tyler
Lorrie Moore
Poetry in Review
Masters, Young and Old
James Longenbach
Recordings in Review
Orpheus Britannicus Redivivus—the Purcell Tercentenary
Dewey Faulkner