From Winter 1979 Explore This Issue Violence, Imagery, and Introspection (on Killing Floor by Ai; The Five Stages of Grief by Linda Pastan; & Natural Histories by Leslie Ullman) By Peter Stitt From the Winter 1979 Issue ← Triptych of Excellence (on The Sitwells: A Family’s Biography by John Pearson) → The Teller as the Tale (on Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick; & Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman)