F E A T U R E S

The Reinvention of Hate
Geoffrey H. Hartman

Great Teacher
Judith Grossman

Looking for Ghosts
Joan Dayan

The Founders' Story, 1898-1907
R.W.B. Lewis

F I C T I O N

Mermaids
Deborah Eisenberg

Die Grosse Liebe
Aryeh Lev Stollman

P O E T R Y

William P. Spears, Jr.
Gertrude Stein
with a note by T. G. Young

Old Woodrat's Stinky House
We Wash Our Bowls in This Water
Gary Snyder

Other Drivers
Martha Hollander

The Falls
Edgar Bowers

R E V I E W S

A Bureaucracy So Sublime
Ann Fabian

Black Power
Nicholas Jenkins

How to Tell a Hawk from a Handsaw
Anthony Hecht

Fiction in Review
Dorothy Allison—Facts and Fiction
Walter Kendrick

Poetry in Review
Allen Grossman and Robert Pinsky
Langdon Hammer

Recordings in Review
Betsy Jolas—Words and Music
Vivian Perlis

Film in Review
The Gangster's Enterprise: Martin Scorsese and the Gangster Film
Gilberto Perez