Spring 2007

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Agonized Face
Mary Gaitskill

Pornografía
H. G. Carrillo

The Master at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital 1914–1916
Joyce Carol Oates

Deep Breathing
David Shields

The Aim of All Nature Is Beauty

Disclosures of Don Juan
Robert Kelly

Errantry
Elizabeth Hand

Interval
Aimee Bender

From Intercourse
Robert Olen Butler

Ghosts
Cole Swensen

Benevolence
Shena McAuliffe

Not Fade Away
Luc Sante

Two Poems
Kevin Magee

Her Lady’s Mouth
Mary Caponegro

Letter to a Wound
Reginald Shepherd

Essay on What Is Want
John D’Agata

Variations on Desire: A Mouse, a Dog, Buber, and Bovary
Siri Hustvedt

Always Crashing in the Same Car (a mash-up)
Jonathan Lethem

My American Jon
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Any Shape, Any Size
Will Self

Notes Toward the Township of Cause of Trouble (Venus\'s Cabinet Revealed)
Eleni Sikelianos

Working Late
Lewis Warsh

Stamina
Michael White

Two Stories
Rikki Ducornet

The Arbor
Andrew Mossin

The Mouse
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Obsession in Outer Mongolia
Paul West

Signified
Susan Steinberg

Three Poems
Donald Revell

How Many Fires
Rebecca Seiferle

The Plot
Tova Reich

Three Poems
Juliana Leslie

A Home To Go Home To
S.  and G. Miller

Desire with Digressions
Brian Evenson

Eclipse
Carole Maso

Self-Portrait with Beach
Frederic Tuten