Vol. 71 no. 4
Summer 2005

EDITOR’S NOTE
Typhoon, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Even Macau Girls Get the Blues, Bharati Mukherjee
String Theory, Mary Troy
ESSAY
John the Baptist, Mia Leonin
Committee to Save the World, Robert Day
Jesse Howard and Roger Brown in the Broadcasting Booth of the Lord, Andrei Codrescu
The Way of Ignorance, Wendell Berry
POETRY
Famous lovers stumbled upon, Marge Piercy
Two Poems, Alice Friman
Migration, Brian Swann
Two Poems, Dennis Finnell
Two Poems, Jane Hirschfield
Letter to My Wife and Little Son, translated by Kevin Christianson and Halina Ablamowicz, Andrzej Bursa
Birthing on Battlefields, David Ray
Two Poems, Tom Russell
Cliche, Geof Hewitt
100-inch Mill, Special Plate Finishing Facility, Robert Gibb
INTERVIEW
The True Heirs, an interview with Bharati Mukherjee, conducted by Angela Elam
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
The Brown/Howard Art Tour, an essay on the art exhibition, Margaret Brommelsiek
A New Path to Paradise, on the fiction of Mary Troy, Catherine Browder
Place and Inspiration, on the travel writing of Walter Cummings and Thomas E. Kennedy, Susan Tekulve
Toward Redemption, on the essays of Melita Schaum and Paul Zimmer, H.L. Hix
ARTWORK
Watercolors by John Cody
Paintings by Roger Brown and Jesse Howard