F E A T U R E S

Dante The Florentine
R. W. B. Lewis

Still Here
Dante After Modernism
Peter S. Hawkins & Rachel Jacoff

Fires of the Mind
A Memoir
Jacobo Fijman
translated by Melanie Nicholson

A Gentlemanlike Training
James Fenimore Cooper at Yale
April Allsiton & Pamela J. Schirmeister

Harems and Ceremonies
Edith Wharton

Prelude to Independence
Dean Acheson

F I C T I O N

Märchen
Katherine L. Hester

Properties of Language
David Shields

P O E T R Y

Song, Son Sordino
John Hollander

The Argument About Difficulty
Rachel Hadas

In the Barn
Ron Rash

Pennant
Eliza Griswold

Duration of White
Reginald Shepherd

The Painter’s Atelier (Nonda)
Stephanos Papadopoulos

The God of Wine
Alan Michael Parker

More Delicacies
Molly Bendall

One Thing Told from Another
Max Winter

Self-Pity’s Closet
Michelle Boisseau

Backstage
David Wagoner

R E V I E W S

Bard on Bard
Anthony Hecht

Fiction in Review
Prey: Joy Williams & Janet Kauffman
Molly McQuade

Poetry in Review
Michael S. Harper & Yusef Komunyakaa
Michael Thurston

Recordings in Review
Steely Dan
Daniel Hall