Description

Editorial Statement

Gregory Wolfe, Patron Saints

Fiction

Albert Haley, Jonathan Possible, An Appreciation 
Joann Smith, Michael Rooney

Poetry

Jean Janzen, The Language of Light
Scott Cairns, Two Poems
Jennifer Atkinson, Pietà
Gerald Reilly, easter
Allen Grossman, Your Laughing Lover
Alexander Theroux, Everything Smells Like Something Else

Interview

A Conversation with John Updike

Visual Arts

Charles Shere, Impulse, Dpeth, and Poetry: The Art of Pia Stern
Barry Moser, Blood & Stone: A Journal of the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible

Essays

Ron Hansen, Stigmata
Louis Simpson, Literature and Belief

Confessions

Mary Swander, The Fifth Chair