Table of Contents
 
Table Talk
 

Frank Bidart
Poem: For the Twentieth Century

Robert Polito
Miscellany: Maelstrom: 1948

Czeslaw Milosz
Prose-Poems: Subjects to Let

Vivian Gornick
Books: James Baldwin

Charlie Smith
Poem: Louisiana Purchase

James Campbell
Books: William Burroughs

Matt Donovan
Poem: Prep Work: Houdini

Anne Carson
Books: On a Poem by Paul Celan

Yehuda Amichai
Poem: Paul Celan

Stephen Dixon
Fiction: The Friend

Michael Greenberg
Books: The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud

Ted Solotaroff
Memoir: Truth Comes in Blows

John Hollander
Poem: A Bit From Emerson

August Kleinzahler
Music: Selling Off a Collection

Wendy Lesser
Opera: Platée

Michael Ignatieff
Theater: King Lear

P. N. Furbank
Poem: To Horatio

Jessica Roeder
Fiction: End of Story

John Berger
Art: Frida Kahlo and Juan Gelman

Mark Doty
Poem: Elizabeth Bishop, Croton

David Bromwich
Film: The Stranger

Letters to the Editor

 

Cover: Untitled portrait by Mike Disfarmer. The photographs in this issue (all copyrighted by Peter Miller) are reproduced from Disfarmer, published by Twin Palms Publishers.