F E A T U R E S
Britain and Islam, 1600–1800
Different Perspectives on Difference
Ronald W. Jones
Imaginary People
Cynthia Ozick
The Brothers Goncourt
The Breakdown of Joy
Anita Brookner
Places of Fear
Nicholas Howe
Words
Maribeth Fischer
The Dream of Reading
James Richardson
Unlikely Likes
George Herbert and Philip Larkin
C. K. Williams
F I C T I O N
Underworld
Shelia Kohler
Bed Check
Ellen Wilbur
P O E T R Y
A Short History of the Shadow
Appalachian Lullaby
Charles Wright
Under Heaven
Elisabeth Frost
Inhabited D
Rhoda Janzen
Lunch by the Construction Site and After
Joanie Mackowski
Death Will Do Nothing
Charles Martin
The Red Blouse
Roderick Townley
Night and Nail
Mary Jo Bang
A Dream of Backed-Up Drains
Joyce Carol Oates
Nostos
Alan Wlliamson
Listening in Bed to You Reading Swann’s Way Aloud
Debra Nystrom
R E V I E W S
Emotional Man
Edison Miyawaki
Fiction in Review
Susan Sontag’s In America
Sven Birkerts
Poetry in Review
Pankey, Rumsey, & Levine
Brian Henry
Recordings in Review
The Recording Business: Issues & Reissues
Patrick J. Smith