Table of Contents


Table Talk

Dean Young
Poem: Fade Out

Margaret Drabble
Afterword: Unfinished Portrait

Louise Glück
Poem: Portrait of a Dog

Clifford Thompson
Books: Joan Didion’s Blues

Nicholas Friedman
Poem: Garnet Hill

Tomas Unger
Books: The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

Serhiy Zhadan
Poem: Dogs of Urban Infrastructure

Bryce T. Bauer
Books: The Fair Chase by Philip Dray

Raksha Vasudevan
Memoir: Bone Memories

John Burnside
Poem: Thought Experiment Performed
in a Fit of Sleep Paralysis

David Kelly Lawrence
Fiction: The Other Child

Peter Najarian
Miscellany: The Dead

Laura Newbern
Poem: In Winter

Javier Marías
Film: Ed Wood

Nate Klug
Poem: Ghost at the Hy-Vee

Elise Moore
Film: The Childhood Christmas Crisis

David Moolten
Poem: Jacob’s Ladder

Steve Vineberg
Music: Jerome Kern

Toni Martin
Music: The Accordion in the Closet

Dalton Day
Poem: It Comes Down to How the Air Moves

Wendy Lesser
Opera: Don Giovanni

Charles Simic
Poem: Such at Least Is the Story

Elizabeth Tallent
Fiction: The Lights



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