F E A T U R E S
Why Grand Central?
On the Opening of the House of Mirth
Mark Bauerlein
Studying with George Seferis
Edmund Keeley
Ballet's Big Fish
Terry Teachout
Men and Games and Guns
David Shields
New York Days
Patrick McCaughey
On the Death of Portraiture
Paula Marantz Cohen
An Interview with Eric Bentley
N. Graham Nesmith
F I C T I O N
The Isabel Fish
Julie Orringer
Jorie
(& Jamie)
Joyce Carol Oates
P O E T R Y
Fish and Watergrass
Henri Cole
In Media
Res
Rachel Hadas
What Can
Be Said
Tom Sleigh
Happening
Irving Feldman
The White
Eyelash
Susan Kinsolving
Bachelorhood
John Hennessy
In Freud's
House
David Lehman
In the
Protestant Cemetary in Rome
Joseph Harrison
The Great
Slide
John Bensko
Looking
at Pictures: 1947
Steve Orlen
Soprano
Authority
Mark Wunderlich
Archaic
Smile
Julie Sheehan
R E V I E W S
The
Hebrew Prophets, Then and Now
Thomas L. Jeffers
His
American Language
Neil Baldwin
Fiction
in Review
Iain
Pears
David Galef
Poetry
in Review
Carl
Phillips
Robyn Creswell
Recordings
in Review
Divas
Endure
Patrick Giles
