POETRY
ELIZABETH SPIRES House of String / Light Like Water
WILLIAM FARGASON Aquarium / Birthmark
TROY JOLLIMORE Critique of Judgment / The Apples
DAVID HERNANDEZ Dear Gun / Master Sommelier Blind-Tastes a Glass of Water
KELLI RUSSELL AGODON Braided Between the Broken
REBECCA MORGAN FRANK Caught / Ministry of Ostriches
ELIZABETH T. GRAY JR. Devi: The Goddess
CARL PHILLIPS Spring / By Force
RACHEL RICHARDSON Shearwater / Anemones
CAMPBELL MCGRATH Lux Australis
MELISSA STEIN Portrait of my family as a pack of cigarettes
FICTION
GLEN POURCIAU Stereopticon
RICARDO NUILA At the Bedside
LAURA LEE SMITH Unsafe at Any Speed
DAVID GUTERSON Feedback
POLLY ROSENWAIKE Tanglewood
STEVEN HEIGHTON Shared Room on Union
JUAN JOSÉ SAER Thursdays at La Giralda
translated by Steve Dolph
NONFICTION
Explorations
VALERIA LUISELLI Stuttering Cities
translated by Christina MacSweeney
Reflections
JOSHUA HARMON The Itchy Glowbo Blues
KATHRYN KRAMER The Holy Grail
Reader’s Notebook
JEHANNE DUBROW Sharpened Light: On Larkin’s “Sad Steps”
Art
FRANCIS-NOËL THOMAS Rogier van der Weyden and James Ensor: Line and Its Deformation
Cultural History
RÜDIGER SAFRANSKI Wagner Overthrows the Gods
translated by Robert E. Goodwin
Recollections
LARRY I. PALMER The Haircut
TRANSLATIONS
ESTHER TUSQUETS Two Old Friends / Always the Sea
translated by Barbara F. Ichiishi
REDISCOVERIES
W. C. BROWNELL New York After Paris