Autumn 1996

John Taylor’s “Taking the Odium Out of Sodium” Leonard Kriegel’s “New York Losers-And Winners” Brad Barkley’s “Escaping” Sanford Pinsker’s “Albert Murray: the Black Intellectuals’ Maverick Patriarch” Stories by John Taylor, Leonard Kriegel, Brad Barkley, and Sanford Pinsker Poetry by Mary Winifred Hood, Susan Imhof, Sam Witt, and Edward Kleinschmidt
Autumn 1996

Volume 72, Number 4

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Table of contents

Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1996

Ruhama

By Yehuda Amichai
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1996

The Shore of Ashkelon

By Yehuda Amichai
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1996

My Mother Died on Shavuot

By Yehuda Amichai
 
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Reprint, Autumn 1996

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Escaping

By Brad Barkley
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Going Under

By Mary Winifred Hood
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Political Correctness and All That

By Jack R. Fischel
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Albert Murray: the Black Intellectuals’ Maverick Patriarch

By Sanford Pinsker
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Voyages

By Mary Winifred Hood
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Is Civility Dead?

By Cyril R. Mill
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Shadows

By William Hoffman
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The Limitations of Ordinary Light

By Susan Imhof
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The Green Room, Autumn 1996

By Staige D. Blackford
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Camelot Revisited

By Adam Yarmolinsky
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Drifts

By Susan Imhof
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Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1996

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“One Mythology Among Many”: The Spiritual Odyssey of C. S. Lewis

By Michael Nelson
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The Petersburg Dawn

By Sam Witt
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The Many Hats of Mr. Madison

By David B. Mattern
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The Shoe Woman

By Elaine Fowler Palencia
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Self Service

By Edward Kleinschmidt
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Grass Roots Civil Rights

By Robert J. Norrell
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John Dos Passos, 1896–1970: Modernist Recorder of the American Scene

By Townsend Ludington
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Temporale

By Edward Kleinschmidt
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The Holocaust: the Reason Why?

By Hans A. Schmitt
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Mary Lee Settle: the Lioness In Winter

By Mariflo Stephens
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Erebus

By Doug Anderson
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Taking the Odium Out of Sodium

By John Taylor
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Remembering the Best Years of Our Lives

By Philip D. Beidler
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Warriors

By Doug Anderson
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Man on A Turquoise-Colored Cloud

By Barbara Haas
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Mamasan

By Doug Anderson
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New York Losers-And Winners

By Leonard Kriegel

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