From Winter 1999 Explore This Issue on In Plato’s Cave by Alvin Kernan By Sanford Pinsker From the Winter 1999 Issue ← A Flash and an Hour (on The Calfbearer by Ida Affleck Graves; Fire & Flower by Laura Kasischke; Donkey Gospel by Tony Hoagland; The Old Liberators: New and Selected Poems and Translations by Robert Hedin; & Extranjera by Lola Haskins) → on The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway–Maxwell Perkins Correspondence, 1925-1947 edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli