Table of Contents


Table Talk

Adam Zagajewski

Poem: Impossible

Elizabeth Tallent

Books: The Essays of Leonard Michaels

John Barth

Books: The Arabian Nights

Jess Row

Books: Classical Chinese Poetry and
The Chinese Written Character
as a Medium for Poetry

Robert Pinsky

Poem: Chaim Bialik’s “Light”

C. K. Williams

Poem: In the Augean Barn

Javier Marías

Memoir: Chamberí

Kay Ryan

Poem: Still Life with Lemons, Oranges,
and a Rose (1633)

Wendell Berry

Fiction: The Girl in the Window

Greil Marcus

Music: Van Morrison

Dean Young

Poem: Another Long Day in the
Helping Industry

W. S. Di Piero

Miscellany: Round Time

Jim Powell

Poem: Point Lobos Outlook

Adam Phillips

Opera: Monteverdi’s Orfeo

Frank Bidart

Poem: For an Unwritten Opera

David J. Rothman

Poem: The Demon Speaks of the
Bottom Line

Richard Locke

Film: Jean-Luc Godard

Steve Vineberg

Theater: Our Town and
Waiting for Godot

Bert Keizer

Medicine: Anti-Alzheimer’s Drugs

Robert Gibb

Poem: Aphasia

Teolinda Gersão

Fiction: The Letter


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