Summer 2010
Table of Contents
Special Feature
Cadaver, Speak
Essays
Dream Dancing
Law in Western Life and Stories
Saving the Appearances: John Ford’s Rescripting of the American Mythos
Fiction
Drunk Girl in Stilettos
Witnessing
Poetry
After Weeks of Rain
Last Will
Lightning Bugs and the Pleiades & My Segment on the NewsHour
Rethink It
The Family Price
Tympanum
Art
Danse Macabre (with an introduction by Susan Ludvigson)
Reviews
“Silly Old Bear”: Pooh Old, Pooh New (on David Benedictus’ Return to the Hundred Acre Wood)
on David Nokes’s Samuel Johnson: A Life
Tibet: A Reading List (on Xinran’s Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet; Ma Jian’s Stick Out Your Tongue; Tubten Khétsun’s Memories of Life in Lhasa under Chinese Rule; Anne Carolyn Klein’s Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self; Hildegard Diemberger’s When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet; Vic Mansfield’s Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics: Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge; Melvyn C. Goldstein’s A History of Modern Tibet, Vol. 2: The Calm Before the Storm, 1951–1955; Matthew T. Kapstein’s The Tibetans; Manosi Lahiri’s Here Be Yaks: Travels in Far Western Tibet; Patrick French’s Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land; Robert Barnett’s Lhasa: Streets with Memories; and Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China’s 100 Questions, edited by Anne-Marie Blondeau and Katia Buffetrille)
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