Vol. 74 no. 2
Winter 2008
EDITOR’S NOTE
Let Us Contradict, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Flood, The, Anne-E. Wood
Two Studies in Entropy, Sara Pritchard
Intercourse: Couples in Six Short Stories, Robert Olen Butler
ESSAY
Introduction: Inge Genefke’s Second Testimony on Torture, translated by Thomas E. Kennedy, Thomas Larsen
The Meeting with Evil: Fight Against Torture, transcript by Thomas Larsen; translated by ThomasE. Kennedy, Inge Genefke
The Great Debaters: Looking for Tolson the Poet, Robert M. Farnsworth
Whistleblower, Beverly Blasingame
POETRY
Mirrors of Damascus, translated by Issa Boullat, Abed Ismael
Two Poems, Trish Reeves
Two Poems, Adrian C. Louis
early morning lines, John Knoepfle
The End and the Beginning, translated by Marilyn Hacker, Marie Etienne
Two Poems, Deborah Bogen
Class Reunion, David Ray
Descent, Matthew Ladd
For Deliverance, M. Nassorri Pavone
The Palmer Method, William Trowbridge
Hangman, first place, Jennifer Maier
A Puzzle, Jennifer Maier
Two Poems, Melvin B. Tolson
INTERVIEW
Paying for Every Word, an interview with Margot Livesey, conducted by James Schiff
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
Anatomy Lessons, a review of Leslie Adrienne Miller’s poems, Katie Manning
The Top Tier of Literary Essays, on the essays of John Updike and J.M. Coetzee, Peter Wolfe
Between Memory and Mirth: Stories As Shape-Shifting Genre, on two recent Flannery O’Connor Award winners in the short story, Catherine Browder
ARTWORK
Murals by Jose Domingo Canas
Photographs by Choung Doan