F E A T U R E S
A Passion for the Primitive
Dian Fossey among the Animals
Marianna Torgovnick
Secret Maps
Holly Wright’s Photographs of Hands
Charles Simic
Eight Photographs
Holly Wright
The Woman Clothed with the Sun
Jaroslav Pelikan
99 Cracks
Aphorisms, Expostulations, and Ten-Second Essays
James Richardson
F I C T I O N
Air Mail
Jeffrey Eugenides
Lovers
Ellen Wilbur
Bone Key
Joe Ashby Porter
P O E T R Y
Umbrella Weather
Rachel Wetzsteon
Old Man
C. K. Williams
Fall Landscape, with Empty Places & Sound
Suzanne Paola
The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep
Linda Gregerson
The World
Mark Jarman
Blood Orange
Slaughterhouse Flies
Street of Martyrs
Charles Simic
The Cyclist
William Jay Smith
Wisdom (Not for Beginners)
Irving Feldman
Big Sister
Jeredith Merrin
History, Weather, Loss, the Children, Georgia
Herbert Morris
R E V I E W S
Archaeologist as Liar
Robert Pounder
The Art of Portraiture
James Trilling
The New Catastrophism
Edward T. Chase
Fiction in Review
Religion and the Contemporary Novel
Joan Silber
Poetry in Review
Louise Gluck, Alan Shapiro, Seamus Heaney, S. X. Rosenstock
James Logenbach
Recordings in Review
The Allure of Great Conducting
Albert Innaurato