F E A T U R E S

Mississippi
William H. Gass

Pop Theater
Jed Perl

Read Only to Start Your Own Team
Emerson on Creative Reading
Robert D. Richardson, Jr.

Unwritten Chapters
Paul Horgan

F I C T I O N

Christmas Tree
William Faulkner
with a note by Patricia C. Willis

P O E T R Y

An Offering for Târâ
Gary Snyder

For Appearances
Jordan Smith

Two Poems
Peter Sacks

Paradigm Shift
Arguments of Silence
Rachel Hadas

Apostasy
Henri Cole

R E V I E W S

We Will Go Down the Line Together
The Origins of the American Railroad
James Alan McPherson

Fiction in Review
The Novels of Louis Begley
Jane Mendelsohn

Poetry in Review
Formal Feelings: New Books by Women
Langdon Hammer

Recordings in Review
A Survey of Historical Piano Recordings
Igor Kipnis