2003
Online Exclusives
Contents
Fiction
errata from the field: demographics
by Quan Barry
mission statement, or the Saturday after Sinatra died
by Quan Barry
Catastrophes
by Paul Eberly
Taj Mahal and Petha
Irini
French, Vacuum, Butterfly
Calamity
The Kubrick Version
by Ann Lewinson
History Lesson
by Tom Whalen
Essays
Objects and Digressions
by Ronny Ashar
Stage 2
Towards a Cultural Geography
Shadowboxing: For the Iraqi Dead
Letter to the Editor
Poetry
Snow Language
My Heart is the Smallest Catafalque
by Cynthia Cruz
For Tomorrow
O Hollywood (1)
O Hollywood (2)
O Hollywood (3)
West of the Soul
Runaway Queen
by Kelle Groom
Hafizullah Amin
Mexico
Cow Ruminating—Ditto Donkey
by Nathan Hoks
Poem in Memory of a House
by Tung-Hui Hu
If you are traveling with a live child
Pyramid
by Nancy Kuhl
A Sentence from Tacitus
by Daniel Lin
Balancing Acts
by Sandra Meek
The Most Unsafe Market in Jerusalem
The Country I Am From
by E. I. Pruitt
Faulkner’s Elvis
The Hose
Mrs. Engebretsen’s Banquet, Glendorado, Minnesota, Eighteen Seventy-Something
by Brian Satrom
Tidal Flats
To Utopia
Jill Returns to Cameron
Chipmunk
by Brian Swann
A Hotel in the Rain
Conversations
Literature and Prayer: A Talk with Ilan Stavans
A Conversation with Lise Haines
by Sherry Ellis
Creature of Habit: An Interview with Jill McCorkle
by Sherry Ellis
An Interview with Tom Sleigh
by Allegra Wong
Reviews
The Optical is Topical