Fall 2013
Table of Contents
Essays
Bill’s Clay Figures
Erotics of Place
Not Quite the End of Nature Writing
Tearing Down the Barn
Fiction
Two brothers
West Pond Road, 1981–88 & Other People’s Houses
Poetry
Archaeology
Autumn
Coming or Going
Coming to Terms
On the Silver Anniversary of a Heartbreak
Play
Postscript
Recovery
The Secret; Everything All at Once; & At the Confederate Graveyard, Chattanooga
Reviews
“You are me. Or, more precisely, we are it.” (on A God in the House: Poets Talk about Faith, edited by Katherine Towler and Ilya Kaminsky; & Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners, edited by Jim Elledge and David Groff)
on Phantom Camera by Jaswinder Bolina
Register, Resonate, Ring (on Bruce Beasley’s Theophobia; Annette Spaulding-Convy’s In Broken Latin; Bill Neumire’s Estrus; and Stanley Plumly’s Orphan Hours)
Still the Talk of the Town: Literary Work and the New Yorker (on Janet Carey Eldred’s Literate Zeal: Gender and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos; & Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence, edited by Joelle Biele)
Past Issues
