F E A T U R E S

The Formative Frontier
The Early Years of Andrew Jackson
Andrew Burstein

Remembering the Boulangerie
Ethel Thurston

Actors and Us
Stanley Kauffmann

Letters to Peter and Eleanor Ross Taylor
Randall Jarrell
edited and introduced by Stephen Burt

Proxima Ra
Gerald Majer

The Writer's Audience
Wallace Stegner

F I C T I O N

Some Other, Better Otto
Deborah Eisenberg

P O E T R Y

To My Grandfathers
To Lili's Walk
W.S. Merwin

Pre-Op Room
Sandra McPherson

Something Large Is in the Woods
Charles Simic

Another Session
Mary Jo Salter

In Spring
Henry Sloss

The Dawn Chorus
For A Fourteen-Year-Old Woman
William Logan

Under The Shadow
Joanie Mackowski

Gray Wagtail
Andrew McNeillie

Invisible Station
Michael Tyrell

Smoke Tree
Sherod Santos

Gone to the Devil
Sara Miller

R E V I E W S

In the Realm of the Senses
Lance Esplund

Fiction in Review
Rohinton Mistry
Claire Messud

Poetry in Review
Grace Schulman, George Bradley, W.S. Merwin
Richard Howard

Recordings in Review
Gluck
Dewey Faulkner