Table of Contents

Table Talk

Javier Marías
Miscellany: A Borrowed Dream

D. Nurkse
Poem: The North Side

Adam Phillips
Books: Philip Larkin

Peter Spagnuolo
Poem: Dementia Pugilistica

Danielle Chapman
Books: Chinese Apples:
New and Selected Poems by W. S. Di Piero

Matthew Ladd
Books: The Muse in the Machine
by T. R. Hummer

Edward Hirsch
Poem: To the Subway

Edwin Frank
Memoir: Virgil in India

Anis Shivani
Poem: On Satyajit Ray's Aparajito

Steve Vineberg
Film: Gabriele Muccino

Dagoberto Gilb
Fiction: Why Kiki Was Late for Lunch

Anne M. Wagner
Public Art: The Vietnam Memorial at Age 25

Ed Skoog
Poem: During the War

Greil Marcus
Music: Sam McGee's "Railroad Blues"
and Other Versions of the Republic

Wendy Lesser
Opera: The Ring of the Nibelung

Michael Ryan
Poem: In the Mirror

Jessica Roeder
Fiction: Repairs

Michael Chitwood
Poem: A Childhood


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Cover Art: Roger Fenton, General Cissé and Staff Officer, 1856. This and the other war photographs in the Winter 2008 issue are reproduced courtesy of SFMOMA.

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