Fall 1982
Table of Contents
Essays
A Word for the Unspeakable
American Theater Watch, 1981–1982
Being and Judaism
Famous Mythical Beasts: Olaf Stapledon and H. G. Wells
The Reader as Protagonist in Kierkegaard’s Narrative Labyrinth
Translating the Past: Literary Allusions as Covert Criticism
Fiction
How an Ape in Purple Met Jock of the Park
Sample’s Crossing
The Zen Master
Poetry
A Winter Visit
Apology
August
Bedtime Story
Birthday
Divine Propositions
Fighting Death
Fredericksburg
Glen Allen Delvo
Hidden Justice
It’s Nice to Think of Tears
Museum of Her Leaving
My Guardian Angel Stein
Receiving the Stigmata
Storm Warning
Taking the Milk to Grandmother
The Assessment
The Hum
The Mushroom-Eaters
The Printer
Tongues
Two-Way Stretch
Reviews
on Laurel and Thorn: The Athlete in American Literature by Robert J. Higgs
on The Astonished Traveler: William Darby, Frontier Geographer and Man of Letters by J. Gerald Kennedy
on The Genius of Wilhelm Busch: Comedy of Frustration by Walter Arndt
Poems in Open Forms (on These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell; Dream Flights by Dave Smith; Flood by William Matthews; One for the Rose by Philip Levine)
Poetry Is Alive and Well in Ireland (on Contemporary Irish Poetry: An Anthology by Anthony Bradley; Poems, 1965-1975 by Seamus Heaney; Field Work by Seamus Heaney; Poems, 1956-1973 by Thomas Kinsella; Peppercanister Poems, 1972-1978 by Thomas Kinsella; Selected Poems by John Montague)
The Extra Skin That Language Can Give: Recent Collections of Short Stories (on What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver; The Short Hall by James B. Hall; Stories Up to a Point by Bette Pesetsky; In the Land of Dreamy Dreams by Ellen Gilchrist; The Best American Short Stories: 1981 by Hortense Calisher, Shannon Ravenel; Fine Lines: The Best of Ms. Fiction by Ruth Sullivan)
The Magazine That Failed: The “Partisan Review” Crowd in Retrospect (on The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals by William Barrett)
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