F E A T U R E S
The Founders and the Bard
Barbara A. Mowatt
The Drama of Perception
Looking at Morandi Siri Hustvedt
Lost at Sea: Jasper Johns with Hart Crane
Langdon Hammer
From The Straw Sandals: Notes, 1980
Pierre-Albert Jourdan
Translated and Introduced by John Taylor
Montaigne and the Suicide Bombers
A discussion of “De la Vertu”
David Quint
Imagining Influence
Robert Boyers
F I C T I O N
Custodians
Nancy Reisman
This Life or the Next
David Philip Mullins
P O E T R Y
Zero
Dorothea Tanning
On the Ferry
Rachel Hadas
Night Ferry to Finland
Anne Frydman
Watercourse
Tony Sanders
The Dream of
John Kinsella
Gimlets
Ben Downing
The Furnace
Jeremy Axelrod
Late Harvest
Jeredith Merrin
Sick Song
Don Bogen
Leaving the Body
Barry Goldensohn
Self-Portrait as Robert Mapplethorpe
Gregg Wrenn
R E V I E W S
Openhearted and Close-Lipped
Thornton Wilder’s Letters
Marc Robinson
Fighting On
Jeffrey Meyers
Fiction in Review
Jayne Anne Phillips
David Galef
Poetry in Review
Linda Gregg, Susan Wheeler
Craig Morgan Teicher
Recordings in Review
The Durutti Column and Others
Timothy Young
