ISSUES | winter 2014
37.4 (Winter): "Paradise Lost"
Featuring work by K.C. Frederick, Elena Graceffa, Michael Larkin, Dan O’Brien, Carolyn Osborn, Sarah Giragosian, Josh Huber, Bill Roorbach, Johanna Saleska, Katherine Smith, Daniel Torday, and Siamak Vossoughi.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Reviews
Mar 17 2015
The Collected Voice: Three Recent Essay Collections of Note
Robinson, Marilynne. When I Was a Child I Read Books. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012, 206 pp., $24 Patchett, Ann. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Harper, 2013,… read more
Found Text
Jan 12 2015
Anita Loos: The Soubrette of Satire
“Work is more fun than fun.” ~ Noel Coward F. Scott Fitzgerald became the spokesman of the 1920s, but it could have been Anita Loos if she had been game… read more
Curio Cabinet
Jan 12 2015
Between Dreaming and Action: The Portraiture of Bill Brandt
One could argue that photography as an art form reveals the least about its creator. What’s being photographed already exists in the world; the photographer finds it, frames the image… read more
Interviews
Jan 12 2015
A Conversation with Mary Roach
Mary Roach’s wildly successful books, including New York Times bestsellers Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, blend serious scientific inquiry with uproarious comedy,… read more
Fiction
Jan 05 2015
People In Profile
People in Profile was Mrs. Leavenworth’s own creation. It had originally started with historical figures in general, but by the second year she had changed it to humanitarians. There ought… read more
Fiction
Jan 05 2015
Nikitin
For the Russian community of Berlin in the late summer and fall of 1927, Nikitin’s name was on many people’s lips. “Have you heard him?’ they’d ask each other. “Have… read more
Fiction
Jan 05 2015
Ms. Greer
The school where Kyle and Meg taught was a ’70s-era brick and concrete sprawl, the work of an architect who, the students took a perverse satisfaction in discovering, had made… read more
Fiction
Jan 05 2015
The Grinning Boy
There was a certain bar in Charlestown that his father frequented after work at the Schrafft’s candy factory. The boy and his brothers knew to stay upwind when their father… read more
Nonfiction
Jan 05 2015
Ranching on Dry Ground
On top of one of the mesas at the ranch at sunset while looking out above a valley toward other distant blue mesas, the view is a grandiose background for… read more
Nonfiction
Jan 05 2015
Some Notes on Success
What did it mean to be twenty-four? I would like to know how I would have defined success. I know what I desired: to be a rock star and a… read more
Poetry
Jan 05 2015
Poetry Feature: Dan O’Brien
“The War Reporter Paul Watson on How to Eat Well”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson and the King of Kings”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson on the Question of the Bombing of Syria”
“The War Photographer Lynsey Addario Tells the War Reporter Paul Watson”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson and the Son of the Tortured”
Poetry
Jan 05 2015
Poetry Feature: Sarah Giragosian
“Lullaby for Cat”
“What I Mean When I Say I Knew You Long Before We Met”
“All at Sea”
“Dream of the Midwife”
“Nursery Web Spider”
Poetry
Jan 05 2015
Poetry Feature: Katherine Smith
“Milk”
“Night Watch”
“He Remembers His House”
“Ghost”
“Intaglio”
Foreword
Jan 05 2015
Paradise Lost
Literature is replete with “lost” places, from paradise itself to those places—islands or interludes of harmony—that are simply better than the present world. It may seem easy to make fun… read more