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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
Richard Ford CHARITYThe word fuck was provocative but also, she realized, slightly pathetic as an address to your husband. Jim Shepard ALICIA AND EMMETT WITH THE 17TH LANCERS AT BALACLAVAThe Russians peering down at them are serenely puzzled as to what they could possibly be doing. Mary Gaitskill BESTIAL NOISE"Do you want to have a baby? Do you want to?" Peter Gadol LINE UPI don't know why I didn't lay it bare for my dying mother on that or any other night. Diana Abu-Jaber A TALE OF LOVE AND DROWNING, an excerpt from her upcoming novelHe hears the summons of the sea horses, the longing manta ray and wistful eel, the cry of mermaids, mermen, the whole mer-world chants his name: Abdelrahman Salahadin! Where are you? Brett Berk EXCELSIOR"There are no perverts in our woods." NEW VOICES
Fiction: Julie BeneshHABITS OF HAPPINESSAngel knows people who know people who page their boyfriends hourly to ask them if there are any women around who are prettier than them. Poetry: Matthew Dickman APOLOGY AND WINTER THINGS HELEN: GO HOMEPOETRY
Marge PiercyRESORT OFFSEASONJudith Hall I SAW IN LATE NOVEMBER PUMPKINSMark Doty TO THE ENGRAVER OF MY SKIN WATERMELON SODAYves Bonnefoy (translated by Hoyt Rogers) THE BRANCHTREE FROGS, IN THE EVENINGTerese Svaboda THE NICKEL WIFEEdward Nobles TOWARD ACCEPTANCE THE BAUDELAIRE LAMP ($22.95)Tom Sleigh ON THE YARDNick Flynn PHEROMONEWORKER (LOST)FEATURES
Czeslaw MiloszNOTES ABOUT BRODSKYRuminations on the poet who permitted himself everything except complaints. David Shields THE ONLY SOLUTION TO THE SOUL IS THE SENSES: A MEDITATION ON BILL MURRAY AND MYSELFThe genius of America's quintessential antistar Star. INTERVIEWS/PROFILES
Nancy MilfordINTERVIEW BY JEANNE MCCULLOCHThe author talks about her biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay, twenty-nine years in the making. Elizabeth Gold THE KING OF PAPER DOLLSTom Tierney, the world's preeminent paper doll artist, talks with an avid fan. Includes cut-out paper-doll portfolio! LOST & FOUND
Jeanne McCulloch on Paul T. Gilbert's Bertram and His Funny Animals.Frank Bures on Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease. Amy Bartlett on Patrick McGrath's Letter to an Imaginary Friend. Misha Angrist on Nikolai Leskov's The Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Elizabeth Benedict on Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. A READABLE FEAST
Necee RegisHAVE CHEF'S KNIFE WILL TRAVELIn Arcosanti, the experimental Arizona town designed by architect Paolo Soleri, the author whips up a 240-person Italian feast. BLITHE SPIRITS
Anne Chotzinoff Grossman and Lisa GrossmanMILKING THE BULL: THE TRUE ROUTES OF HORCHATAThe drink you'll spot wherever Spanish is spoken and summers are hot. THE LAST WORD
Frank MoorhouseON PREFERRING TO DRINK ALONE AT CHRISTMASThe author offers tips on how to revel a table for one. |
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