Autumn 2008

CONTENTS
 
ESSAYS
Blake Bailey, “John Cheever in Iowa,” 341
Joyce Davis, “Minestra,” 369
Charlotte M. Brock, “Hymn,” 399
Paul Zimmer, “Practicing for Doomsday,” 406
Shannon Egan, “Embodiment and Emptiness: Alison Rector’s Interior Spaces,” 414
Michael Busk, “Allah Akhbar,” 477
John C. Hampsey, “Aestheticizing the Wasteland, Revisioning the Journey: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road,” 495
 
FICTION
Jessie Marshall, “Dogs,” 355
Anthony Varallo, “The Girl at the Station,” 383
Franz Kafka, from Amerika: The Missing Person, 425
Tara Mantel, “Confessions,” 439
Jessica Raimi, “My Three Months with the Great Man,” 455
 
POETRY
Andrea Hollander Budy, “Auden” and “At Mt. Lebanon Cemetery,” 352
Robert McNamara, “A Life” and “Mortal Words,” 367
William Virgil Davis, “Geographical,” “Three Dancing Maidens,” and “November,” 379
Dick Allen, “God’s Beatnik,” 396
Hailey Leithauser, “Apologia” and “Boys of L.A.,” 404
Michael Heffernan, “Long Lost” and “The Origin of the World,” 410
Charles Harper Webb, “Dark Penguin,” 437
Wendy Barker, “On Teaching Too Many Victorian Novels in Too Short a Space of Time During Which the Reader Becomes,” 453
Susan Rich, “Re-Imagining My Life with Lions,” 454
William Hathaway, “The Bobolink in the Buttercups,” “The Milk Snake in the Woodstack,” and “Goldfinches in the Evening Primroses,” 472
Albert Goldbarth, “...a museum of sorts, for errors.,” and “Leads On,” 484
 
GRAPHICS
Alison Rector, Paintings, 417