A Mind of Winter (on Across the Layers: Poems Old and New by Albert Goldbarth; The Nonconformist’s Memorial by Susan Howe; God’s Loud Hand by Kelly Cherry; Tesserae and Other Poems by John Hollander; 2 Guys on Holy Land by Walid Bitar; A History of Small Life on a Windy Planet by Martha Collins; & Everything Winged Must Be Dreaming by Susan Ludvigson)
Passionate Inwardness (on Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal by Nancy Mairs; Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life by Patricia Hampl; & Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris)
What Americanists Talk About When They Talk About Culture (on The Making of Middlebrow Culture by Joan Shelley Rubin; The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America by Shirley Samuels; & Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States by Luther S. Luedtke)