F E A T U R E S
An American Singer
Peter G. Davis
The Appetite for Truth
On Melville’s Shorter Fiction
John Updike
Sorrowing
Maribeth Fischer
On the Heights
Scenes from the Life of a Bishop
Paul Moore Jr.
Gift from a Lost World
Grace Schulman
Keats and the Aesthetic Ideal
David Bromwich
F I C T I O N
The Queen of Sheba Is Afraid of Snow
Joanna Scott
P O E T R Y
Back Yard Boogie Woogie
Half February
Charles Wright
Erotic Energy
Secrets
Chase Twichell
Where You Are
Mark Doty
Russian Lessons
Charles O. Hartman
The Code of Napolean
David Lehman
Never in Life
Matthew Sweeney
This Late
Denver Butson
A Killing Frost
Jay Parini
On Myth
Rachel Hadas
R E V I E W S
The Search for American Heroes
Howard Lamar
An Impossible Survival
John Taylor
Fiction in Review
The Comic Elegance of Ann Beattie
Lorin Stein
Poetry in Review
Charles Wright and Jorie Graham
Willard Spiegelman
Recordings in Review
Theater Music of Kurt Weill
Paul Gruber