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Josip Novacovich
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Jean Janzen
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The Autumn 1992 issue, which features work on or about travel and exotic places, showcases paintings by Michael Chapman, essays by Josip Novakovich and Kathleen Norris, fiction by Thomas E. Kennedy and Jay Neugeboren, and poems by Michael Burkard, William Trowbridge, Linda Pastan, and Albert Goldbarth, as well as outstanding work by several others.

To order a copy of the Autumn 1992 issue today, go to the Featured Back Issue page, fill out the form, and in the Notes box, specify that you wish to receive issue 5.4.


Contents
Volume 5, Number 4 / Autumn 1992

ESSAYS AND ESSAY-REVIEWS
    Peter Stitt, Editor’s Notes, 567
    Josip Novakovich, “Apricots from Chernobyl,” 569
    Reg Saner, “Swiss Wilderness,” 592
    Wade Davis, “Bruno Manser and the Penan Struggle for the Borneo
        Rain Forest,” 613
    Steven G. Kellman, “Family Matters” (review of The Living, by Annie Dillard;
        The Plagiarist
, by Benjamin Cheever; Very Old Bones, by William Kennedy;
        and Mr. Mani, by A. B. Yehoshua, tr. by Hillel Halkin), 644
    Scott Russell Sanders, “Wayland,” 670
    Kathleen Norris, “Is It You, Again? A Discourse on Monasteries,” 689
    Bonnie Costello, “Possibilities of Paradise: Myth, Narrative, and Lyric” (review
        of South America Mi Hija, by Sharon Doubiago; Rapture, by Susan Mitchell;
        To Put the Mouth To
, by Judith Hall; Eden, by Emily Grosholz; and The Wild
        Iris
, by Louise Glück), 725

FICTION
    Thomas E. Kennedy, “Flying Lessons,” 578
    Alberto Alvaro Ríos, “The Great Gardens of Lamberto Diaz,” 628
    Jay Neugeboren, “What Is the Good Life?”, 698
    Askold Melnyczuk, “Chalices and Skulls,” 716

POETRY
    Jean Janzen, “Dividing the Night,” 577
    Michael Burkard, “Another Infinity,” 590
    Howard Levy, “The Vibrant Archipelagos,” 610
    Dan Masterson, “Ballooning,” 626
    Alane Rollings, “The Heat That Colors Need,” 642
    William Trowbridge, “Flashbacks,” 656
    Linda Pastan, “the arithmetic of alternation,” “At Indian River Inlet,” and         “leaves,” 665
    Albert Goldbarth, “The Story of Dorsett,” 682
    Nance Van Winckel, “The Old Men of the Wilderness Club,” 685
    Thomas Reiter, “Rant Findlay and the Floating Town,” 686
    Michael Heffernan, “Badia Fiesolana,” 697
    J. P. White, “Reading Tu Fu, China’s Greatest Poet, 1244 Years After He
        Failed to Secure an Official Scholar’s Post,” 715
    Ralph Black, “The Muses of Farewell,” 723

GRAPHICS
    Michael Chapman, Paintings, 657