Vol. 72 no. 1
Fall 2005/2006

EDITOR’S NOTE
Introduction: The Essay and Form, Robert Stewart
ESSAY
On Being Cool, Laurence Gonzales
Soldier Son, Janet Burroway
The Trapezoidal Mind, William H. Gass
Charles the Obscure, Charles Simic
9/11: The View from Gramercy, Kathrin Perutz
The Silence, Elmaz Abinader
Filing N-400 for Naturalization, Judy Ray
The Boy Who Ran Through Europe, Conger Beasley Jr.
Riding the Dog, Thomas E. Kennedy
Striptease, Lauren Slater
Stories of Water, Linda Hogan
The Shadow of Her Smile, Donn Irving
Jungle Fever: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Novels, the Cold War, and Jamaica, Gerald Early
Oval Ovaries, Flowering Tubes: Another Infant Autopsy, Gail Waldstein
A Brief History of Hair, Alyce Miller
How Many of You Are There in the Quartet?, Brian Doyle
Things Not Seen in a Rear-View Mirror, Debra Marquart
My Father’s Image, Hilary Masters
Woman in Front of the Sun, Judith Ortiz Cofer
Subject: Robert Graves, Random Notes of a Biographer, James McKinley