Table of Contents


Table Talk

W. S. Di Piero
Poem: By the Seawall

Clifford Thompson
Perspective: Out of the Past

Alice Mattison
Books: Henry Green’s Wartime Novels

Charles Simic
Poem: Arson

Tomas Unger
Books: Half-light by Frank Bidart

Willie Lin
Poem: The Vocation

Alberto Manguel
Books: Fort Not by Emily Skillings

Kay Ryan
Poem: Fake Pockets

Maria Adelmann
Fiction: The Portrait

T. J. Clark, Deborah Eisenberg,
Adam Phillips, Arthur Lubow, Sarah Deming
A Symposium on Shame

Stephen Tuttle
Poem: The Naming of Parts

Wendy Lesser
Theater: Richard III

Paul Christiansen
Poem: Dress Code for the Conquered

Jamel Brinkley
Fiction: Clifton’s Place

William Wenthe
Poem: Wig Lady

Steve Vineberg
Film: Fellini’s Early Masterpieces

Dean Young
Poem: My Collage Life

Patrick Tripp
Medicine: I Need Science

List of 2017 Donors

Sharon Olds
Poem: Bay Area Aria


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Cover Art: Eadweard Muybridge, Contortions on the ground, 1887 (detail).

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