Winter 1988
Table of Contents
Essays
Comedy and Cultural Timing: The Lessons of Robert Benchley and Woody Allen
Somewhere in the Eighties
Technically Sweet
The Disappearance of Man
Fiction
Reading Sign
The Classicist
The Dark Snake
Poetry
Alto
Armida
Camille on Her Death Bed
Envy and the Violin
Kid Gloves
Marching Music & The Betrothal
Niagara
Poem in Death Valley
Questions About Angels
The Birds of Hoboken
The Invisible Hand
Where the Body Ends
Wild Apple Trees
Reviews
Isn’t It Gothic? (on Spirit Seizures by Melissa Pritchard; Ghostly Populations by Jack Matthews; Mourner at the Door by Gordon Lish; The Assignation by Joyce Carol Oates; & Blood and Water and Other Tales by Patrick McGrath)
Mapping Freud’s Half-Hidden City (on Freud: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay)
on Half Savage and Hardy and Free: Women and Rural Radicalism in the Nineteenth-century Novel by Judith Weissman
on Jane Austen: Her Life by Park Honan
on Praises & Dispraises: Poetry And Politics, The 20th Century by Terrence Des Pres
on Spiritual Quests: The Art and Craft of Religious Writing by William Zinsser
on The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition by Bernard W. Bell
on William Carlos Williams, The Arts, and Literary Tradition by Peter Schmidt
on Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author by Clifford Geertz
The Elegies of Style (on April Galleons by John Ashbery; Tango by Daniel Halpern; & The Selected Poems of Tomaz Salamun by Tomaz Salamun, Robert Hass, and Charles Simic)
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