Table of Contents

Table Talk

Dean Young
Poem: Bright Head

Francie Lin
Memoir: Educated

David Ferry
Poem: Willoughby Spit

Tim Parks
Books: The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati

Mark Jarman
Poem: Old Acquaintance

Margaret Drabble
Books: Javier Marías

Evelyn Toynton
Books: Vertigo by W. G. Sebald

Christian Wiman
Poem: Why He Doesn’t Keep a Journal

Luc Sante, August Kleinzahler, Dave Eggers,
Janna M. Smith, Frederick Wiseman,
Gayle Pemberton, and Lawrence Weschler
Symposium on Helen Levitt

Will Aitken
Miscellany: Architecture of Loss

Becky Hagenston
Fiction: Arctic Circus

Jane Hirshfield
Poem: This Was Once a Love Poem

Wendy Lesser
Dance: Mark Morris’s Double Bill

Steve Vineberg
Theater: The Merchant of Venice and Macbeth

Alan Shapiro
Poem: Broadway Revival

Anne Carson
Television: Samuel Beckett

Natasha A. Garber
Fiction: Instinct

Kim Addonizio
Poem: Echo and Narcissus

Letters to the Editor


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Cover: Helen Levitt, Untitled, 1942; reproduced courtesy of the Laurence Miller Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.