Nonfiction
On Wanting to Say [spoken slowly, by a poorly received writer to a poet]
William Gass
The Iliad, an Affair of Honor
Steven Smith
The Longest Poem in the English Language
James Longenbach
On Situating Sylvia Townsend Warner
Elizabeth Powers
Friendship, Time, and the Sabbath
Ronald Sharp
Fiction
Eye of Tylor
Gerald Majer
The Real Thing
Sheila Kohler
Poetry
Twister
Sunday Mirror
Stephen Edgar
The Bickers
Pastry Level
Mary Jo Salter
Letter to Laren
Wet Paint
Stanley Moss
The Right Fit for Sure
Richard Howard
The Last Page
Molly McQuade
Loss
Jean Ross Justice
Some Comfort in a Smaller Field of Vision
Leslie McGrath
The Show Opens Tomorrow
Wish
Deborah Garrison
Cézanne
Morri Creech
A New English Grammar
Jeff Dolven
Venasque
Mary Stewart Hammond
Reviews
Fiction in Review Anne Tyler
Greg Johnson
Poetry in Review James Lasdun, John Koethe
Stephen Burt
Recordings in Review The new traditionalists
Timothy Young
