Fall/Winter 2006 Issue


467    To Our Readers

SPECIAL FEATURES

534    William Matthews      Peripheral Pleasures: Letters to     Russell Banks, Daniel Halpern, and Stanley Plumly (with     an introduction by Sebastian Matthews)
606   "Into the Hectic Unknown”: Correspondence from     the Archives of The Georgia Review, 1947–76, including     Conrad Aiken, Pearl S. Buck, Leo Connellan, Harry Crews,     James Dickey, Albert Einstein, T. S. Eliot, Jesse Hill Ford,     John Gardner, George Garrett, Richard Howard, Katherine     Anne Porter, Lewis P. Simpson, Allen Tate, Lionel Trilling,     Evelyn Waugh, E. B. White, Edmund Wilson, and others     (with commentary by Stephen Corey)

ESSAYS

471    Judith Kitchen    The Life of the Letter
505    Michael Donohue    Russell and Mary
712    David Bosworth    Conscientious Thinking:     Fundamentalism, Nihilism, and the Problem of Value     during the Demise of the Scientific Worldview

FICTION

480     Kent Meyers   Rodney Valen’s Second Life
553     Alison Cadbury   Dimitra’s Path
566     Mary Hood   Leaving Room
577     Tracy Daugherty   Magnitude

POETRY

469    Lawrence Raab   Twelfth Night
478    Amy Newman   Dear Editor
497    Sydney Lea   Appetite
502    Robert Wrigley   Delicious
504    Marvin Bell   Five to Seven
530    Bob Hicok   Two living wills    and    “As the story     was told and told again”
550    William Matthews   Construction   and   The     Inventions of Memory
552    Eamon Grennan   Twentieth Anniversary
562    J. Allyn Rosser   Early in Any Century   and    
     Self-Pith
565    Julie Suk   Caravaggio’s World
574    Marianne Boruch   Piano, with Distance
605    Frank X. Gaspar   The Novel
709    Diane Seuss   I’m Glorious in My Destruction Like     an Atomic Bomb
740    David Huddle   The Cosmetic Surgeon Comes to     Glory River
748    Derek Sheffield   The Accretions

ART

596   Michael Kenna     Hokkaido
699   Debbie Fleming Caffery     Smoke Walking

REVIEWS

750    Gerald Weales American Theater Watch,     2005–2006

760    Judith Kitchen  The Letter of the Life (on Renée and     Theodore Weiss’s The Always Present Present:
    Letters-Poems; The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by     Saskia Hamilton; A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters     of James Wright, edited by Anne Wright and Saundra     Rose Maley; and Love, Amy: The Selected Letters of Amy     Clampitt, edited by Willard Spiegelman)

775    Jeffrey Meyers  Confronting the Demons (on The     One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life,     1970–1997, edited by Gordon Van Ness; and A Poet’s     Prose: Selected Writings of Louise Bogan, edited by Mary     Kinzie)

782    Ron Smith  Then, Who Is the Editor of the English     Language? (on Henry Hitchings’ Defining the World: The     Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary; Lynda     Mugglestone’s Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the     Oxford English Dictionary; and Ilan Stavans’ Dictionary     Days: A Defining Passion)

791    Paul Zimmer  The Alignments (on Temple Cone’s     Considerations of Earth and Sky; Naomi K. Long’s     Radiant Field; Paul Allen’s His Longing: (The Small Penis     Oratorio); Emmy Pérez’ Solstice; Charles Wright’s The     Wrong End of the Rainbow; Karl Elder’s The Minimalist’s     How-to Handbook; Kevin Meaux’s Myths of Electricity;     Tom Sexton’s The Lowell Poems; and David Tucker’s     Days When Nothing Happens)

803    Edward Butscher  Stories True and Not: Six     Anthologies of Our “Best” Writing (on The Best American     Short Stories 2004, edited by Lorrie Moore; The O. Henry     Prize Stories 2005, edited by Laura Furman; New Stories     from the South: The Year’s Best 2005, edited by     Shannon Ravenel; Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best of the Small     Presses, 2005 edition, edited by Bill Henderson; The Best     American Mystery Stories 2004, edited by Nelson     DeMille; and The Best American Sports Writing 2004,     edited by Richard Ben Kramer)

824    Pat MacEnulty  States of the Arts (on Barnstorm:     Contemporary Wisconsin Fiction, edited by Raphael     Kadushin; Forged in Fire: Essays by Idaho Writers, edited     by Mary Clearman Blew and Phil Druker; and The Poets of     New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary, edited by     Emanuel di Pasquale, Frank Finale, and Sander Zulauf)

829    Karen Swenson  In Another Country (on James     Traub’s The Devil’s Playground: A Century of Pleasure     and Profit in Times Square; Stephen Lewis’ Hotel Kid: A     Times Square Childhood; Daniel Kane’s All Poets
    Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the     1960s; Gerald W. McFarland’s Inside Greenwich Village: A     New York City Neighborhood, 1898–1918; Paul     Goldberger’s Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the     Rebuilding of  New York; and Philip Lopate’s Waterfront:     A Walk Around Manhattan)

837    Hugh M. Ruppersburg on Selected Letters of Robert     Penn Warren, Volume 3: Triumph and Transition,     1943–1952

840    Louis Phillips on Arguing Comics: Literary Masters     on a Popular Medium

844    Book Brief by Deborah Straw

846    CONTRIBUTORS