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We have even included some excerpts for you to check out. As you read through the Table of Contents, click on the gold links to catch a glimpse of what this issue holds for you. FICTION
Kevin Canty RED
DRESSBut everything after that was in code, ambiguous, the silences full of unasked questions. Sarah Towers BLACK
WIZARD"Gerard, what the hell are you doing?" Nancy Reisman ILLUMINATIONThe fantasies multiply, despite Lucia's long hemlines and safe necklines and careful office behavior. NEW VOICES
Poetry: Ben DoyleRECESS
IN THE FOREST THE
WAR IS OVER SATELLITE
CONVULSIONSFiction: Max Ludington THAWFor the first time in about half a year the slow, muscular body of his addiction began to stir in him. Poetry: Allison Dubinsky PLAYING
DEADPOETRY
Donald HallHER
GARDENTomaž Šalamun BOSPORUS
SONNET
OF A FACEGardener McFall DESIREJulio Marzán AUNT
MERCEDES AND PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYSBei Dao THE
OLD CASTLE LEAVING
HOME CALL
IN
MEMORYWith an introduction by Eliot Weinberger Edward Nobles INTERSTATE
THE
BODYJane Hirschfield IN
PRAISE OF COLDNESS BLUE
WINDOWFEATURES
KEATS, THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND THE TORIESAndrew Motion celebrates John Keats. SYLVIA PLATH'S JOURNALS Long the subject of intense speculation, the poet speaks for herself in her unabridged journals. INTERVIEW/PROFILE
HA JINThe Chinese émigré and winner of this year's National Book Award for his novel 'Waiting' talks with Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais about the uncertainty and risk of writing in an adopted language. PILGRIMAGES
Ann HoodLITTLE
AUDREYThe "Victim's Soul" of Worcester. Jane Avrich ZANZIBARIt is here that he intends to find you again. LOST & FOUND
David Leavitt celebrates E. M. Forster-mentor, William Plomer, a prolific writer of poetry and prose whose now-out-of-print books sell for as much as a thousand dollars each on the antiquarian market.Patrick McGrath on Nigel Balchin's Darkness Falls from the Air, a suave British novel full of boozing, infidelity, and stiff upper lips in the face of the London Blitz. Adina Hoffman on South from Grenada and The Face of Spain by Gerald Brenan, a keen writer-of-place and superb painter of verbal portraits for whom Spain was a constant inspiration. David Ryan praises the literary elegance of British novelist Henry Green, a writer's writer as idiosyncratic and transcendent as Celine and Faulkner. C. M. Mayo on Francis Calderòn de la Barca's Life in Mexico, a 1843 memoir that reads like a novel, with colorful details that spill forth like candy from a just-broken piñata. Jim Zug toasts the grand old lady of British writing, Doris Lessing, and the first of her 34 books, The Grass Is Singing, a tale of sexual tension and murder in apartheid South Africa. A READABLE FEAST
THE UNTAMED HEART AT LARGE: HENRY MILLER IN PARISLongtime Paris connoisseur, Frederick Turner, delves into the lowbrow Paris of Henry Miller, retracing the steps of the down but not out American writer who knew how to scrounge a good meal on the cheap. BLITHE SPIRITS
BEAT THE HEATRich King battles Manhattan's summer swelter, finding the ultimate relief in a spicy mix of fixx and julep. THE LAST WORD
Eliot WeinbergerTHE
LAUGHING FISHThe noted essayist and translator on how fish just don't get the joke. PORTFOLIO
Michael Prince
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