Contents
Volume 27, Number 4 / 2006
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Poetry
GEORGE BRADLEY   The Serpent’s Seed
JYNNE DILLING MARTIN   Reasons to Consider Setting Ourselves on Fire /  
                 Some Important Clarifications /   Revelations
LINDA GREGERSON   Dido in Darkness /   The Chapel Doom /   The Turning
DAVID LEHMAN   The Red Death
SUSAN HAHN   Crosses
CARL PHILLIPS   The River in Motion and in Stillness /   Storm
SUSAN WOOD   The Lord God Returns
MARY CORNISH   The Lane /   Lotus Feet
JOHN KINSELLA   Canto of the Floodway: more irregularities of road travel
LAURA KASISCHKE   Almost There /    Riddle
HAYES DAVIS   Bargain Apocalypse

Fiction
STEPHEN O'CONNOR    Bestiary
CARLA PANCIERA   No Sooner
ARTHUR SCHNITZLER   Lieutenant Gustl
               (translated from the German by Margret Schaefer)
JAN PENDLETON   Director’s Cut
SUSAN JACKSON RODGERS   Outside
GREGORY SPATZ    Happy for You
SAGE MARSTERS   Bear Story

Special Feature

STANLEY ELKIN REVISITED
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RICHARD TRISTMAN   Tragic Soliloquy, Stand-up Spiel
DAVID C. DOUGHERTY   Prospects of Recovery: Two Unpublished Sketches by Stanley Elkin
STANLEY ELKIN   Baseball Story /   Colin Kelly’s Kids

Reflections and Reminiscences
HELEN VENDLER : JOHN IRVING : ROBERT COOVER : ROBERT PACK : KATHRYN KRAMER : STANLEY BATES : WILLIAM GASS : ROBERT COHEN : DAMIEN WILKINS : CHARLES BAXTER

Film
ROBERT B. RAY   Film Studies and the Problems of the New Century

Revaluations
MARCUS KLEIN   What to Make of Maisie

Reflections
THOMAS MANN   My Times
                 (translated from the German by Scott Denham)

Provocations
MYLES WEBER   Whose War Is This?

Rediscoveries
LAURENCE OLIPHANT   Wild Elephants

Cover artist: Tim Fitts

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