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Issue 5 (November 2009)
Eamon Grennan sends poems from Poughkeepsie.
Katharine Weber indulges her sweet tooth in Chicago.
David Evanier hangs with the wiseguys in Ozone Park.
Susan Scarf Merrell writes frenemy fiction.
Charles Douthat remembers, in verse.
Brian Wecht writes an obituary for peer review.
Rachael Scarborough King reads and watches Watchmen.
Susan Holahan makes poetry of cockroaches, pizza, Mondays, a baby.
Allan Appel mows life’s lawn (it’s a story).
G. Thomas Couser bids farewell, my lovely job.
Michael Bayer finds poetry in what they say about prose.
Issue 4 (May 2009)
Joshua Cohen alphabetizes Obelisk’s literary smut.
Michael Milburn, English teacher, races against race.
Gary Zebrun finds love, or something, in the Holy Land.
David Orr, in an exclusive interview, talks a good game about poetry.
Paul Beckman drinks to that.
Deborah Eisenberg, Anna Shapiro, Peter Smith, Anna Quindlen, Alice Quinn,
Thisbe Nissen, Willard Spiegelman, Tessa Brown, Sarah Gardner Borden, Rosa
Jurjevics, and Eva Geertz remember their friend Laurie Colwin, even if some of them
never met her.
Caledonia Kearns on desire, muu-muus.
Roger K. Miller loses it at the movies.
Anthony Domestico ♥ John Crowley.
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Issue 3 (November 2008)
Jim Knipfel defends that liar who lied in his memoir.
Stephen Ornes finds art in the ruins of our Coliseum.
Nick Antosca, fiction writer, puts on heirs.
George Witte believes the poetical is political.
Desirea Rodgers takes photographs of today’s slaves.
Joy Ladin was born male. Discuss. (She does.)
Jess Row is a prisoner of war.
Willard Spiegelman travels to Japan, gets lost in translation.
Ian Ganassi waits for more rain.
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Issue 2 (May 2008)
Deirdre Bair has a Simone de Beauvoir affair to remember.
Ross Douthat feels otherworldly about fantasy master Robert Jordan.
Matthew Cheney gets let down.
Steven Stoll says Karl Marx had at least one capital idea.
Eva Geertz of New Haven says her heart is where her home is.
Jonathan Kiefer mourns his mother, who may have kept him out of Yale.
Lizzie Skurnick’s poetry has something for morning, something for evening.
Elizabeth Edelglass’s story is set during another war, one worth fighting.
Nicholas Day offers a course on three new food books.
Rudolph Delson on how to score with women, readers.
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Issue 1 (August 2007)
Alice Mattison loves, and is distracted by, her children.
Debby Applegate laces into Victorian New Haven.
Deirdre Bair dances with joy for Joan Acocella.
Mark Oppenheimer cozies into medium-size towns.
Amy Bloom, Bruce Shapiro, and Margaret Spillane review books deeply, briefly.
Tom Gogola headbangs with Roland Barthes and another rock critic.
Samuel Astrachan, forgotten master from the 1950s, returns with new fiction.
Jim Sleeper proclaims evening in America for a new biography of Ronald Reagan.
Gregory Feeley has ‘tude ‘cause novellas don’t get no respect.
Molly Worthen gets solitary with a book and movie about monks.
Brian Francis Slattery grooves with a musicians’ cult-fave book.
Chandra Prasad flies high with fiction about Amelia Earhart.
Paul Bass shops for why New Haven always thinks malls are the answer.
Daniel Oppenheimer gets geeky with sci-fi fandom.
George Scialabba plays Jeremiah about the decline of these United States.
Carole Bass fumes about industrial safety.
Marc Wortman, cineaste, says it’s not an art house, it’s an art home.
Jonathan Fink works out a poem.
Bruce Tulgan defends the capitalist pig.
Allan Appel zooms off on a fictional motorcycle, with babe.
Chloe Bland shrinks into the life of a prepubescent boy.
Sarah Pemberton Strong wrenches lyricism from plumbing.