F E A T U R E S

"We Must Forget the Past"
History in the New South Africa
Eric Foner

Dealing With the Past
History in the New South Africa
Diana Wylie

Central Europe Redivivus
George Konrad

Mess
John Hollander

A Drawing
Saul Steinberg

On Rarity and Mischance
Daniel Hall

Not Flat, Not Round, Not There
Don DeLillo's Novel Characters
Mark Edmundson

F I C T I O N

Coydog
Ann Beattie

Aria
Peter Cameron

P O E T R Y

The Strangers
Submitting
Jorie Graham

Marriage of Two Minds: Received Visions
Harry Matthews

But Then
A Measure of Things
Stephen Sandy

Allen Tate's Grave
Being on the Job
Dave Smith

Ovid at Land's End
Debora Greger

Muharram in Srinagar, 1992
Agha Shahid Ali

Stone Flight
Eamon Grennan

Us/Claudia/Talleyrand
Albert Goldbarth

Trees of the New World
Margaret Ditmars

R E V I E W S

Cents and Nonsense
Sociology in the Culture of Currency
James Tobin

Taking Up Serpents
Religion and Rattlers in Appalachia
Guy Davenport

Fiction in Review
Thomas Disch and the Modern Gothic
John Crowley

Poetry in Review
Metamorphoses: Recent Work by Women
Stephen Yenser

Recordings in Review
The Legacy of Louis Armstrong
Gunther Schuller