Vol. 72 nos. 3 & 4
Spring/Summer 2006
EDITOR’S NOTE
The Disinterested Search for Truth, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Rumor’s Gift, Molly McNett
All Who Die Share One Breath, W. Tsung-yan Kwong
Adam’s Curse, Greg Downs
A Cry of Ice, David Madden
The Next Best Thing to Flying, Josh Weil
Celebrations, Gary Gildner
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941, Alan Cheuse
Taken, Charlotte Holmes
Money Makes the Monkey Dance, Alicita Rodriguez
ESSAY
Century Walker: The Tsunami Notebook, Margo Berdeshevsky
Travels in Lavender and Light, Floyd Skloot
Journal Making, Barry Targan
POETRY
Three Poems, Allison Eir Jenks
Two Poems, Liliana Ursu
Canoe, Jene Erick Beardsley
Rope, Megan Grumbling
Five Poems, Albert Goldbarth
Participial Present, T. Alan Broughton
Two Poems, Adrian C. Louis
Four Poems, Mary Jo Salter
Why I Believed, As a Child, That People Had Sex in Bathrooms, Cecilia Woloch
For Love or Baseball, Lorin Cuoco
Old Bird, Richard Newman
Two Poems, Walter Bargen
Two Poems, Anne Guzzardi
Tristia V. X:15-20, translated by John Balaban, Ovid
The Goodbyes, John Balaban
INTERVIEW
Order & Disorder, an interview with Mary Jo Salter, conducted by Robert Stewart
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
Into the Realm of What If, on the stories of Penelope Lively, Peter Wolfe
When Love Divides, on the fiction of Nahid Rachlin, Catherine Browder
A Fine Ride, on Bill Barich’s obsession with horses, romance & the Irish, James McKinley
ARTWORK
Photographs by Margo Berdeshevsky, David Madden, and Ansel Adams
Mixed-media assemblage by Paula Streeter