Description

Editorial Statement

Gregory Wolfe, Emerson vs. Hawthorne

Fiction

Ron Hansen, Atticus

Lawrence Dorr, The Storage Room

Poetry

Linda Pastan, October Catechisms

Paul Mariani, Two Poems

Marjorie Maddox, Three Poems

Edward Bartók-Baratta, Two Poems

Lawrence Russ, Two Poems

Interview

A Conversation with Richard Wilbur

The Visual Arts

Ben Frank Moss, The Gift’s Embrace

Gordon Fuglie, The Revealed and the Concealed: The Art of Michael Schrauzer

Essays

Paul Mariani, Art and the Spiritual: The Difficult Balance 

Robert Flynn, Jeremiah Was a Bulldog

Interpretations

Murray Bodo, OFM, At Thomas Merton’s Hermitage

Reviews

A.G. Harmon on Shusaku Endo’s Deep River

Caroline Langston on Oscar Hijuelos’s Mr. Ives’ Christmas

Robert Royal on Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before