F E A T U R E S

Stitches in Time
Peter S. Hawkins

Eight Portraits
Mariana Cook

La Romanee and the Prince de Conti
Richard Olney

Replicas
Steven Millhauser

The Game in Matanzas
On the Origins of Cuban Baseball
Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria

F I C T I O N

Skin Deep
T. M. McNally

P O E T R Y

HIV
Brian Swann

How I Was Told and Not Told
The Bruise of This
Mark Wunderlich

Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565
Richard Howard

Sexy
Joyce Carol Oates

Saffron
Craig Arnold

Across the River and into the Sleaze
Turner Cassity

Ruth's Garden
Jennifer Clarvoe

Traveling North
Mairi MacInnes

R E V I E W S

The Culture of Chinese Painting
Mary Gardner Neill

Larkin's Life and Letters
Claude Rawson

Fiction in Review
William Gass's Masterwork
James McCourt

Poetry in Review
Newcomers and New Strategies
George Bradley

Recordings in Review
The Latest Cast of Opera Stars
Wayne Koestenbaum