Winter 2008

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Winter 2008

Table of Contents

Special Feature

My Franziska, Charlotte Salomon, and the Decision Not to Be: Suicide Before, During, and After the Holocaust (with paintings from Charlotte Salomon’s Life? or Theatre? A Play with Music)

Essays

London & a Friend

Fiction

No Shade Ever

One Time

The Dangerous Lay of the Land

Poetry

Conjugations

Disproportionate & A Partial List of Unacknowledged Musics (Feel Free to Add Your Own)

In the Chapter “Rodin in Love”

Inbetween Deaths

What We Know Is Not What We Feel

Young of the Year

Reviews

Just How New Is the Terror Paradigm? (on The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi; The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf; Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy by Charlie Savage; The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration by Jack Goldsmith; and Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War by Tara McElvey)

Keeping Company (on Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry, edited by Dennis O’Driscoll; A Time in Xanadu by Lars Gustafsson, translated by John Irons; Yellowrocket by Todd Boss; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope by Paisley Rekdal; In Praise of Aunts by M. R. Peacocke; National Anthem by Kevin Prufer; Want by Rick Barot; and Glory River by David Huddle)

Memoirs on Our Mind (on I’ve Heard the Vultures Singing: Field Notes on Poetry, Illness, and Nature by Lucia Perillo; Room for Doubt by Wendy Lesser; Learning to Fly: A Writer’s Memoir by Mary Lee Settle; Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors by Lisa Alther; Bigger than Life: A Murder, a Memoir by Dinah Lenney; and Just Breathe Normally by Peggy Shumaker)

The Last Noël (on The Letters of Noël Coward, edited by Barry Day)

Interview

Attendant Surprise: An Interview with Stephen Kuusisto