Vol. 74 no. 3
Spring 2008
EDITOR’S NOTE
Time and the Frabic of Immensity, Robert Stewart
FICTION
Intercourse: Couples in Four Short Stories, Robert Olen Butler
Coffee Time, Shami Janset Berkok
ESSAY
The Quick and the Dead, Nathan Englander
Introduction: Inge Genefke’s Third Testimony on Torture, translated by Thomas E. Kennedy, Thomas Larsen
In Action Against Torture, transcript by Thomas Larsen, translated by Thomas E. Kennedy, Inge Genefke
Nine Memoirs on War and Incarceration, edited by Catherine Browder, Catherine Browder
Nine Memoirs on War and Incarceration, edited by Catherine Browder, Cole Ilsa
Nine Memoirs on War and Incarceration, edited by Catherine Browder, Evelyn Bergl
Nine Memoirs on War and Incarceration, edited by Catherine Browder, Eugene Lebovitz
Nine Memoirs on War and Incarceration, edited by Catherine Browder, Phu Van Nguyen
Nine Memoirs on War and Incarceration, edited by Catherine Browder, Siegfried Ruschin
Nine Memoirs on War and Incarceration, edited by Catherine Browder, Judy Jacobs
Nine Memoirs on War and Incarceration, edited by Catherine Browder, Ralph Berets
Nine Memoirs on War and Incarceration, edited by Catherine Browder, Federico Adler
A Different Kind of Time, Sam Pickering
Mrs. Wright’s Bookshop, Thomas Larson
POETRY
Father, Child, Water, Gary Dop
Ultrasound, Kristin Berger
Woodbridge, Mary Crockett Hill
Listening to Clifford Brown’s Turnpike in the Weeks Following My Wife’s Death, Robert Gibb
The Nest, Robert Gibb
At the Lotus Pond, Edie Rhoads
Two Poems, Richard Terrill
Once Out of Nature, Mark Irwin
In Stuttgart, David Axelrod
Figure and Field, Carol Durak
The Studio, translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Irma Giannetti, Floarea Tutuianu
INTERVIEW
Everything & Its Opposite an interview with Nathan Englander, conducted by Bonnie E. Lyons
REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
On the Freighter and the Book, and the Crossing They Both Made Possible, Conger Beasley Jr.
Wizard of the Tenor Sax, on the life and music of Lester Young, Peter Wolfe
More Clearly This Time Around, on the selected poems of Kelly Cherry, Alice Friman
Shedding Skins, Surviving Colonialism, Trish Reeves
He Doesn’t Hate It. He Doesn’t, on the poetry of Jim Daniels, William Trowbridge
ARTWORK
Photographs by Rebecca Norris Webb, Rusty Leffel, and Judy Ray