Winter 1989
Table of Contents
Essays
Actors in the Sky
How to Gut a Book
Living Souls
The Desperate Mission of Stefan Lux
Fiction
As Though by Magic You Have Been Unmasked
Looking for Signs
The Whore of Fez el Bali
Poetry
“Too Much,” & The Aliens’ Translation Machine
Bringing It Down
Hard Souls
Job, Too
Moss Burning
Ordinary Crambles
Sloth: The Deadliest Sin
We and They & Thanksgiving
Reviews
Faulkner Criticism’s Inexhaustible Voice (on William Faulkner: American Writer by Frederick R. Karl; Faulkner’s Country Matters: Folklore and Fable in Yoknapatawpha by Daniel Hoffman; Fiction’s Inexhaustible Voice: Speech and Writing in Faulkner by Stephen M. Ross; & The Crossing of the Ways: William Faulkner, The South and the Modern World by Karl F. Zender)
on At Home and Abroad by V. S. Pritchett
on Heavy Traffic and High Culture: New American Library as Literary Gatekeeper in the Paperback Revolution by Thomas L. Bonn
on Lust & Other Stories by Susan Minot
on Poetry and Ambition: Essays, 1982-88 by Donald Hall
on The Outermost Dream: Essays and Reviews by William Maxwell
on The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age by Robert Alter
on Trauma and Mastery in Life and Art by Gilbert J. Rose
Stalking the Barbaric Yawp (on Collected Poems by Louis Simpson; Wild Dreams Of A New Beginning by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Selected Poems: 1938-1988 by Thomas McGrath; Echoes: Poems Left Behind by John Ciardi; & Selected Poems by W. S. Merwin)
Three Contemporary Masters: Brodkey, Carver, Dubus (on Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey; Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories by Raymond Carver; & Selected Stories by Andre Dubus)
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