2019
Online Exclusives
Contents
Fiction
Aren’t We All?
The Joker’s Smile Cannot Stop the World Turning
Swordfished in Nantucket
Essays
Wonder
A Certain Convocation of Worms
A Toast to the King of Bohemia
Yerevan on the Charles: An Homage to Diana Der-Hovanessian
Losing Stephen Dixon
Seventeen Notes on Singing
Poetry
For Goya’s Public Ice Skaters of Spain
by David Blair
Leadership
Muted
Coronation
“I’m lucky my parents were peasants”
Translated from the Ukrainian by Askold Melnyczuk and Oksana Lutsyshyna
Burial Day
by Sharon Olds
Conversations
Beyond the Cocktail-Party Version: A Conversation with Leslie Jamison
by Yvonne Conza
Reviews
Moving Parts
by Jenna Le
The Outrageous Layers of Things: A Review of Marianne Boruch’s The Anti-Grief
The Philosophical Comedy of Adam Ehrlich Sachs
by Ben Roth
Reverb
A Poet’s Quiz
Betwixt and Between: The Poet’s “Dream”and Social Imperatives
by Sydney Lea
Ghosts among the Trees
Homage to Former Teachers
Losing the Lifeblood of World Literature
by David Ball
Money, Deadlines, and Water
On Translating Li Bai’s “Parting at Changgan”
by Kenneth DeWoskin and Rachel DeWoskin
Reading in the Dark
Regarding Handke, Pound, D’Annunzio, and Company
by Kai Maristed
Revisiting Poems of Grief: On Ordinary Mourning
Some Thoughts on Ambiguity: Mystery, Truth, and Lies (Part 1)
by James Arthur
Some Thoughts on Ambiguity: Mystery, Truth, and Lies (Part 2)
by James Arthur
Someone to Love: How to Create a Convincing and Interesting Character
Struggling against Silence: Two Questions with David Hayden
by agnimag
Teaching the Short Story as a Living Form
The Accident of This River: After James Tate
The Epic Tussle: A Conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin
by agnimag
The Moral Thing
by Bipin Aurora
The Night Mary Oliver Died, or Collateral Joy
The Writer’s Image
Unsolvable Mysteries
Voluntary Displacement: Two Questions with Lisa Chen
by agnimag
When Things Flip All the Way Around: Recognition and Reversal