Table of Contents
 

Table Talk

Christian Wiman
Books: Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky (tr. Pevear and Volokhonsky)

Kay Ryan
Poem: Chemise

Daniel Wolff
Books: Mountains and Rivers Without End by Gary Snyder and The Beat Book, edited by Anne Waldman

Dean Young
Poem: Lives of the Poets

Robert Pinsky
An Alphabet of My Dead

W. S. Di Piero
Poem: No Title

Kerry A. Reilly
Memoir: Shards

Donald Hall
Poem: Letter in Autumn

Gina Berriault
Fiction: The Figure Skater

Kim-An Lieberman
Poem: Mme.

Francine Prose
Memoir: The Old Morgue

Sarah Lindsay
Poem: Dido Summons the Beetles

Jane Vandenburgh
Poem: Vultures Over Leesburg

Steve Vineberg
Theater/Film: Present Laughter and Hamlet

Margaret Drabble
Living in the Pastoral

Vivian Gornick
The Princess and the Pea

Timothy Liu
Poem: Last Day

Chana Bloch
Poem: What It Takes

Nina Kossman
Fiction: The Episode

Letters to the Editor

Cover: David Tomb, Duane II, 1990.