October 1998

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Volume 86, No. 4
October 1998
The Yale Review

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F E A T U R E S

Inter Arma Silent Leges
William H. Rehnquist

Which Urges and Reasonably So the Attraction of Some for Others
Donald Windham

Eight Portraits
George Platt Lynes

The New Nomads
Eva Hoffman

Death and the Maiden
Arnold Steinhardt

I Want to Be A Yale Boy
William McBrien

F I C T I O N

Ambush
Sheila Kohler

P O E T R Y

Orioles
Seed Time
W. S. Merwin

City of Good Neighbors Blues
Irving Feldman

Fast Forward
Joyce Carol Oates

No Rosetta Stone
Ben Downing

The Erotic Philosophers
Carolyn Kizer

Antepenultimate
Marie Ponsot

Hay
Dennis O’Driscoll

Thoreau and the Stumps
David Wagoner

Taboo
Steve Orlen

Ode on the Source of the Mississippi
Tom Disch

The Grownup
David Hilton

Fathers and Daughters, Mothers and Sons
Rachel Hadas

Thelonious Sphere Monk
Bruce Bond

Taking Leave of Zenka
Marilyn Hacker

R E V I E W S

C:\Evolve:
Edison Miyawaki

Fiction in Review
Vivian Gornick and John J. Clayton
Lorin Stein

Poetry in Review
Ashbery, Moss, Kleinzahler, Gander
Stephen Burt

Recordings in Review
Virtual Ravel
Benjamin Ivry

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