Volume LXI Number 4, Spring 2008
Essays
“Apt Admonishment”: Wordsworth As an Example
SEAMUS HEANEY
Penelope Fitzgerald’s Unknown Fiction
DEAN FLOWER and LINDA HENCHEY
Fred: The Astaire Way to Paradise
JOSEPH EPSTEIN
Fiction
The Solider in My Throat
DESMOND FITZGERALD
The Mooi
PENELOPE FITZGERALD
Worlds Apart
PENELOPE FITZGERALD
Sightings
ELIZABETH SPENCER
Poetry
Roses; Hourya; On Painting; Equal and Opposite
EMILY GROSHOLZ
The Children’s Table; Encounter; Aid to Memory; Castlerigg; Wedding Villanelle
MARK JARMAN
What He Said; Les Passages; Gödel; Poetry Night at the Frost Place
B. H. Fairchild
All I Took with the Sun
ROBERT McDOWELL
A Youth of Beauty; The Fly’s Poem about Emily; The Month of Holy Souls
HERBERT LOMAS
Sorrow in 1944
J. D. McCLATCHY
Translations from the Unborn; Memo from Above; A Kiss of Frost; A Sort of Oracle
DAVID MASON
Trail
PETER MAKUCK
Letter to My Father; Offertorio
JOHN GREENING
Out Front; The Cats of 148th Street; A Deepness in Myself Where Seasons Live
ANNE PIERSON WIESE
Chronicles
Music
JOHN SIMON
“Peter Grimes” at the Metropolitan Opera
Dance
MARICA B. SIEGEL
Yvonne Rainer’s reinterpretation of “Le Sacre du printemps”
Theatre
RICHARD HORNBY
Beckett at BAM; Harold Pinter’s “The Homecoming”
Art I
KAREN WILKIN
William Bailey; Jules Olitski’s late paintings; Denver Museum of Contemporary Art
Art II
ALFRED CORN
A traveling exhibition of Gerald Murphy’s art
Reviews
Edmund Wilson’s Permanent Criticism: 1920–1950
WILLIAM H. PRITCHARD
The Library of America’s two-volume Edmund Wilson
The Value of Doubt
BROOKE ALLEN
“A Secular Age,” by Charles Taylor and other books on religion
On Edginess
MARK JARMAN
J. Allyn Rosser, X. J. Kennedy, Vicki Hearne, Kenneth Koch, etc.
Pinker and Johnson on Human Nature
HAROLD FROMM
New books by Steven Pinker and Mark Johnson
Feasting and Fasting
ALAN DAVIS
Nuruddin Farah, Ismail Kadare, Martin Amis, Cees Nooteboom
Two Mothers, Two Memoirs
SUSAN BALÉE
Mary Gordon and Lorna Goodison write about their mothers
Comment
Letter from Arcadia
HILARY SPURLING
