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FICTION
David Leavitt HEAPED
EARTH"From this Wardwell deduced that he either drank, gambled, or had an ex-wife pressing him for alimony." Kawabata Yasunari HER
HUSBAND DIDN'T"Junji had scarcely known what he was doing when he had pinched that woman's earlobe—his first earlobe." Mark Poirer SOMETHING
GOOD"It never ceases to amaze me what people donate: one shoe from a pair, yellowed underpants, used-up votive candles, matted wigs." NEW VOICES
Fiction: Victor D. LaValleCLASS
TRIP"Four black kids on foot spelled little cash and lots of hassles." Poetry: Helen Ruth Freeman LAUREL
TO THE SUN GOD, APOLLO THE
LEGACYPOETRY
Les MurrayCOOLONGOLOOK
TIMBER MILL AURORA
PRONEHenry Israeli PEDALING
FLORIDUS
ORMOLUDaniel Hall NEOCLASSICALQuincy Troupe SONGFaiz Ahmed Faiz MEMORYLuljeta Lleshanaku NEUROSIS
BETRAYEDJill Bialosky PUMPKIN
PICKINGINTERVIEWS
Kurt Vonnegut and Lee StringerThe author of 'Slaughterhouse Five' talks with the formerly homeless writer whose work he has compared to Jack London. Rachel Resnick and Rikki Ducornet A passionate discussion about sex, food and 'The Fanmaker's Inquisition,' Ducornet's bold new novel inspired by the Marquis De Sade. Agha Shahid Ali and Edward W. Said On the eve of his memoir's publication (Featured elsewhere in this issue), the controversial Palestinian critic and intellectual muses on a lifetime of publicly thinking against the grain. PILGRIMAGE
Tom SpanbauerENTRE
CHIEN ET LOUPThe author finds there's no place like home, even if it is homophobic rural Idaho. FEATURES
Walter KirnWOLFE
BITEThe novelist and critic joins Tom Wolfe in shredding a navel-gazing new novel—Kirn's own 'Thumbsucker.' Christopher Merrill TO
DIE FORThe writer dodges snipers' bullets during the Sarajevo Film Festival. Hal Sirowitz IRIS
and JOHNNY APPLESEEDEdward W. Said OUT
OF PLACEIn an excerpt from his memoir, Said describes his family's flight from Egypt to Jerusalem as the Nazis raced through the Middle East. Seamus Heaney A
NEW TRANSLATION OF BEOWULFJim Lewis THE
GENIUS OF LONESOMEAmerica's poets of isolation, from Hawthorne to Hank Williams. Jane Kenyon GABRIEL'S
TRUTHThe late poet reflects on the maternal grace of Mary. LOST & FOUND
Jean Nathan on the haunting children's classic, The Lonely Doll, and the stranger-than-fiction life of its creator Dare Wright.David Gates on In The Throne Room of the Mountain Gods, Galen Rowell's account of the disastrous American K2 climb of 1975. Jonathan Dee on Max Frisch's self-lacerating memoir of adultery, Montauk. Jonathan Lethem on Daniel Fuch's epic 1930s Brooklyn saga, The Williamsburg Trilogy. David Lehman on Charles Willeford's meta-art-world murder mystery, The Burnt Orange Heresy. A READABLE FEAST
Vertamae Smart-GrosvenorI'M
IN PARIS, FRANCE, Y'ALLThe South Carolinian food connoisseur revisits the happy marriage of American artists and soul food in the City of Light. THE LAST WORD
Jim CollinsROUND
UPThe Algonquin, The Iroquois—wherever the round table, all the big names will be pulling up chairs and slipping into dry Martinis. |
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