Volume LXI Number 3, Autumn 2008
ESSAYS
Naipaul Unveiled
WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD
The Burning of the Charity Bazaar
FREDERICK BROWN
“An Impersonal Passion”: Thornton Wilder
BRUCE BAWER
FICTION
Every High Hill
CARY HOLLADAY
POETRY
The Atlas; My Masterpiece
ANDREW MOTION
The Sun’s Diurnal Course; A Pirate Crew; Ghost Ship; The Complete Songs
TOM DISCH
Squibnocket; The Broken Swan; Disappearing Act
ELISE PASCHEN
The Tyranny of Milk
SARA LONDON
My Daughter Dances
STEPHEN C. BEHRENDT
Haircut; The Founding of Byzantium; Les Ruines du Visage; Marginalia
DEBORAH WARREN
Cooking by Waters: An Anti-Elegy; Another Breakup
SYDNEY LEA
A Spring Morning; Letting in the Darkness
JAYANTA MAHAPATRA
Among Ruins; Two Views of the River
ROBERT GIBB
CHRONICLES
Theatre
RICHARD HORNBY
Kabuki goes Hollywood, and other Japanese theatre
Dance
MARCIA B. SIEGEL
William Forsythe’s “Impressing the Czar”
Art
KAREN WILKIN
“El Greco to Velazquez” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
REVIEWS
Kenneth Burke and Shakespeare
EMILY GROSHOLZ
The continuing relevance and freshness of the essays
The Wounded Laureate
DAVID MASON
“In the Blood: AMemoir of My Childhood,”by Andrew Motion
Outside, Inside
PETER MAKUCK
Betty Adcock, Mary Oliver, James Harms, Jane Shore, etc.
A Good Time Everywhere
MICHAEL BARBER
D. J. Taylor on Evelyn Waugh and his generation
Aesthetic Phantoms
BROOKE ALLEN
“Poets on Prozac,”edited by Richard M. Berlin, M.D.
Collecting Science: Sokal, Dawkins, and McKibben
HAROLD FROMM
Science writings for the general intellectual
History and Nightmare
TOM WILHELMUS
Peter Matthiessen, Philip Roth, Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie, etc.
American Art and Literature
KAREN WILKIN
“Voyages of the Self,” by Barbara Novak
COMMENT
Letter from Venice
SERGIO PEROSA
IN MEMORIAM
Thomas M. Disch
BRUCE BAWER
