Winter 1996
Volume 72, Number 1
The Green Room
- Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Winter 1996
Essay
- Tucker Carrington — The Grammar of Hard Facts: Joseph Mitchell's Up In the Old Hotel
- David Kirby — What Is A Writer?
- Leonard Kriegel — Confessions of a Might-Have-Been Conservative
- Francis Leary — Robespierre: the Meaning of Virtue
- Sanford Pinsker — He Had A Dream, and It Shot Him: What Happened to Visions of Racial Harmony, and Why
Articles
- Paul R. Lilly — Percy and the Lamb
- Floyd Skloot — Replacement Players
- Mariflo Stephens — Mints
Fiction
- Alyson Hagy — Sharking
Poetry
- Nicole Cooley — Noli Me Tangere and Alice Changing Size In the Hall of Doors
- Stephen Dobyns — Visitor, Consolations of Water, and To Keep One's Treasure Protected
- Albert Goldbarth — Scale-Model Sketch and Fetishes of Passport
- John McKernan — A Soap Bubble on One Side and When My Mother Visited
- Charles Simic — An Address with Exclamation Points and Meditation in the Gutter
- Mark Svenvold — Variation of Themes By the Doors, Poverty Music, and Work
Reprint
Recent Books
Book Reviews
- Thomas Filbin — A Tale of Two Writers
- John Kuehl — A Man's World
- Robert Mason — City By the Chesapeake Bay
- Martin Ochs — Ross and Alsop: Genius and Gadfly
- David Wyatt — Liking Steinbeck
- Robert Zaretsky — Fascism: the Wrong Idea
