Table of Contents

Table Talk

Louise Glück
Poem: Twilight

Adam Zagajewski
Miscellany: The Veneto

Kay Ryan
Poem: Odd Blocks

Janna Malamud Smith
Books: Ota Benga by Phillips Verner Bradford and Harvey Blum

Evan Connell
Fiction: The Land Where
Lemon Trees Bloom

Philip Levine
Poem: News of the World

Richard Locke
Books: Letters of E. B. White, edited by Dorothy L. Guth and Martha White

Andrea Cohen
Poem: Explanation of Autumn

David Mason
Poem: A Good Laugh

Mark Sarvas
Books: Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon
by Tom Stoppard

Andrew Porter
Fiction: Merkin

Roy Jacobstein
Poem: Chapped Lips

Elizabeth Tallent, Margaret Jull Costa,
Erik Tarloff, Kathryn Crim, Javier Marías
A Symposium on Pedro Almodóvar

Steve Vineberg
Film: Sans Soleil

C. K. Williams
Poem: Halo

Jonathan Harris
Art: The Sight of Death by T. J. Clark

W. S. Di Piero
Perspective: Inside the Box

Sally Ball
Poem: Quarry

Clifford Thompson
Jazz: What Is This Thing Called Love?

Roberto Bolaño
Poem: Self Portrait at Twenty Years

Letters to the Editor



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Cover Art: W. Eugene Smith, from the essay Spanish Village, 1951. Reproduced courtesy SFMOMA and the Center for Creative Photography.

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