Spring 1996

Jeanne Schinto’s “The Lover of Libraries” Lionel Basney’s “Mia California: An Opera Journal” Richard O’Mara’s “Obsolescence, the Death of Newspapers, and All That” J. A. S. Evans’s “The Present State of Canada” Stories by Jeanne Schinto, Lionel Basney, Richard O’Mara, and J. A. S. Evans Poetry by Jon Loomis, Marianne Boruch, Patricia Dobler, and Elena Karina Byrne
Spring 1996

Volume 72, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1996 cover
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Table of contents

 
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Obsolescence, the Death of Newspapers, and All That

By Richard O'Mara
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Austerlitz, New York

By Sally Ball
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A Critical Cicerone

By Stephen J. Whitfield
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Giverny, 1926

By Jon Loomis
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The Present State of Canada

By J. A. S. Evans
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The Spell

By Alethea Gail Segal
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The Lover of Libraries

By Jeanne Schinto
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Reprint, Spring 1996

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The Scotsman’s Return From Abroad

By Russell Fraser
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Circus: Tightrope Walker

By Alethea Gail Segal
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Alvaro De Campos (Fernando Pessoa)

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Above the Chinese Cemetery

By Marianne Boruch
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A Victorian Eminence Revisited

By Cyril R. Mill
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Oporto-Style Tripe

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Some Heretics

By Patricia Dobler
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The Green Room, Spring 1996

By Staige D. Blackford
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Perilous Lives

By Frances Stokes Hoekstra
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Scarification

By Patricia Dobler
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Notes on Current Books, Spring 1996

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Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa)

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Her Plan

By Patricia Dobler
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How to Succeed In Washington Without Really Trying

By Harold B. Mcsween
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The Poems of Catullus

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Immaculate Measure

By Elena Karina Byrne
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Who Killed Satan?

By Sanford Pinsker
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At the Green Cabaret Five In the Evening

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Without the Elation of Rage

By Elena Karina Byrne
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The Rise of Neoconservatism

By Jack R. Fischel
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Marriage Made In Heaven

By Paul Asen
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His Song

By Elena Karina Byrne
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Sheilah and Scottie

By John Kuehl
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Mia California: An Opera Journal

By Lionel Basney
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Sirens

By Sally Ball
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Heyday of the National Pastime

By Shelley Rolfe

Contributor Profiles

Jeanne Schinto

Jeanne Schinto is the author of three books, including Huddle Fever: Living in the Immigrant City (Knopf, 1995).

Lionel Basney

1946-1999

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