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Jonathan Weiner
Gerald Weales
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Arthur C. Danto
Howard Eiland
Leo P. Ribuffo
Joyce Carol Oates
Gina Apostol
Tom Perrotta
Scott Russell Sanders
Edward Falco
Geraldine Connolly
Christopher Buckley
J. Allyn Rosser
Martin McGovern
Paul Zimmer
Ruth Danon
Beth Bentley
Deborah Larsen
Eva Heisler
Lawrence Watson
Diane Ackerman
Gary Kerley
Terese Svoboda
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The Autumn 1988 issue showcases photographs by John Margolies, essays by Gerald Weales, Mark Jarman, and Arthur C. Danto, stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Perrotta, and Scott Russell Sanders, and poems by Christopher Buckley, Paul Zimmer, Diane Ackerman, Terese Svoboda, as well as work by many others.

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Contents
Volume 1, Number 4 / Autumn 1988

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, “Reaching a Milestone,” Editor’s Notes, 590
    Jonathan Weiner, “The Aaronic Profession: Scientists as Writers,” 614
    Gerald Weales, “In Quest of Oscar” (review of Oscar Wilde, by Richard
        Ellman), 635
    Mark Jarman, “The Pragmatic Imagination and the Secret of Poetry”
        (review of Zone Journals, by Charles Wright; Flesh and Blood, by C. K.
        Williams; and A Walk with Tom Jefferson, by Philip Levine), 647
    Arthur C. Danto, “The Philosophical Investigator” (review of Gumshoe:
        Reflections in a Private Eye,
by Josiah Thompson), 678
    Howard Eiland, “The Novel in the Age of Terminal Paradoxes,” 708
    Leo P. Ribuffo, “Jimmy Carter and the Ironies of American Liberalism,” 738

FICTION
    Joyce Carol Oates, “Beauty Salon,” 591
    Gina Apostol, “The Mistress,” 625
    Tom Perrotta, “Wild Kingdom,” 663
    Scott Russell Sanders, “A Gordon Milk Suite,” 691
    Edward Falco, “Leaning Into the Circle,” 725

POETRY
    Geraldine Connolly, “At Mimi’s Style Shop,” 600
    Christopher Buckley, “Beauty in the World” and “Speculation in Dark
        Air,” 609
    J. Allyn Rosser, “All but Yours” and “Love Lessons,” 621
    Martin McGovern, “In the Light Could Kill Us,” 624
    Paul Zimmer, “How Zimmer Will Be Reborn” and “The Origins of
        Love,” 633
    Ruth Danon, “Nightwatch,” 646
    Beth Bentley, “Northern Idylls,” 661
    Deborah Larsen, “New Litany,” 676
    Eva Heisler, “Katherine Mansfield, Italy, 1919” and “Into the Fire,”
        687
    Lawrence Watson, “Cheap Shoes,” 706
    Diane Ackerman, “Transition” and “Wanderlust,” 723
    Gary Kerley, “History” and “The Sun Door,” 736
    Terese Svoboda, “Shell” and “A Scarlet Bird,” 750

GRAPHICS
    John Margolies, “The Architecture of Beauty,” Photographs, 601