From Spring 1991 Explore This Issue on The Death of Literature by Alvin Kernan By Sanford Pinsker From the Spring 1991 Issue ← “Monks Pond” and the Slough of Despond: Crisis in the Cloister and the Flight from the Feminine (on Monks Pond: Thomas Merton’s Little Magazine by Robert E. Daggy & Thomas Merton’s Art of Denial: The Evolution of a Radical Humanist by David D. Cooper) → on Breathing under Water and Other East European Essays by Stanislaw Baranczak