Table of Contents

Bengali Baboo
Deborah Baker

In the Tank
Tom Sleigh

Unliving Hands
Lyric Distance in Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
Adam Keller

Great Aunt Dorothea Mendelssohn
or, Foam on the Wave
Lily Tuck

Wrestling with Machado
Ilan Stavans

Fiction

Plant of Contradictions
Tiphanie Yanique

Four Japanese Stories
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Translated by Ryan C. K. Choi

Eternal Return
Sergio Troncoso

Pretty Things (excerpt)
Virginie Despentes

Poetry

Prospects from the Palisades
John Koethe

Wide Margin Love Poem
Current
Susan Barba

The Way You Look Tonight
Peter Cameron

The Light in the Marsh Grass
Jeffrey Harrison

Echo Lake
Nicholas Friedman

Flirt
Staircase
Christina Pugh

Still Life, Mouth of the Vistula
Daniel Bourne

Unconscious Ode
Ann Keniston

His Shirt
John Skoyles

self-driving
Laura Marris

Living Room
Arthur Vogelsang

Cold Heaven
Watch
Elisabeth Murawski

On Turning Ninety
Edmund Keeley

Mansplaining Oracle
Caki Wilkinson

To the Embalmers
The Completion of Shadows
G. C. Waldrep

Reviews

Nonfiction in Review
Finding Proust’s Duchess
Hollie Harder

Fiction in Review
Rachel Kushner
Abigail Deutsch

Poetry in Review
Federico García Lorca
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

Recordings in Review
The New York Philharmonic’s 175^th anniversary
Dewey Faulkner

Film in Review
Springes to Catch Woodcocks
Paul Franz

Contributors