Fall 1996
Table of Contents
Essays
Bloodline in Ink
Out of Place: Reading O’ Brien and O’ Brien
Searching for Depth in Bonaire
The Cult of the Adolescent: Commercial Indoctrination and the Collapse of Civic Virtue
Fiction
Exit 19-A
The Dyskolos
Three Short Tales
What’s Candy to an Artist?
Poetry
Aphrodite Tempts God
Autumn Leaves
Downpour
Fiddle
For a Summer Night
Harvest Song
Of Possibility: Another Autumn Leaving
On a Print by Hiroshige
Our Own Devices & Not to Mention Love: A Heart for Patricia
Riffs and Reciprocities
What It’s For
Art
echo myths
Reviews
American Anger and the Lost Art of Liking (on City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World by Witold Rybczynski; Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks; & The New American Ghetto by Camilo José Vergara)
American Theater Watch, 1995–1996
Dispatches from the Culture Wars (on The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education by John K. Wilson; The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars by Todd Gitlin; & Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change by Stanley Fish)
Keeping Company (on Taking It Home: Stories from the Neighborhood by Tony Ardizzone; Ocean of Words: Army Stories by Ha Jin; & Wherever That Great Heart May Be by W. D. Wetherell)
on Anais Nin: A Biography by Dierdre Bair
on Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies by Tom Perrotta
on Conversations Before the End of Time: Dialogues on Art, Life, and Spiritual Renewal by Suzi Gablik
on The Other Door by Karen Heuler
on The University in Ruins by Bill Readings
Piecework: The Longer Poem Returns (on Corvus by Anselm Hollo; Muse & Drudge by Harryette Mullen; The Invention of the Zero by Richard Kenney; and Kyrie by Ellen Bryant Voigt)
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