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Spring 1996

The Spell

By Alethea Gail Segal
Spring 1980

An Economist Looks At the 80’s

By Richard T. Selden
Winter 1996

Scale-Model Sketch

By Albert Goldbarth
Winter 1978

James Madison: the Unimperial President

By Ralph Ketcham
Autumn 1995

Velvet

By James Finnegan
POETRY / Spring 1978

A Record of My Trip to Mount She

By Yüan Hung-tao

Height after height of strange mountain scenes,

new words, new ideas in our conversation.

Autumn 1995

Tom Stoppard’s Lighted March

By Joseph Hynes
Spring 1978

Overcoat

By Charles Simic
Spring 1995

I Met a Man Who Wasn’t There

By Michael Jay Katz
Summer 1978

Bruises

By John Unterecker