Robert Atwan, Series Editor
Contents
Foreword by Robert Atwan ix
Introduction by Annie Dillard xiii
MARY LEE SETTLE. London — 1944 1
from The Virginia Quarterly Review
ANNE CARSON. Kinds of Water 21
from Grand Street
Joseph Brodsky. FLIGHT FROM BYZANTIUM 25
from The New Yorker
Alexander Cockburn. HEATHERDOWN: A LATE IMPERIALIST MEMOIR 66
from Grand Street
Gerald Early. THE PASSING OF JAZZ'S OLD GUARD: REMEMBERING CHARLES MINGUS, THELONIOUS MONK, AND SONNY STITT 93
from The Kenyon Review
Kai Erikson. OF ACCIDENTAL JUDGMENTS AND CASUAL SLAUGHTERS 116
from The Nation
Robert Fitzgerald. WHEN THE COCKROACH STOOD BY THE MICKLE WOOD 130
from The Yale Review
William Gass. CHINA STILL LIFES 152
from House & Garden
Stephen Jay Gould. NASTY LITTLE FACTS 161
from Natural History
Anne Hollander. DRESSED TO THRILL 174
from The New Republic
George F. Kennan. MORALITY AND FOREIGN POLICY 188
from Foreign Affairs
Joyce Carol Oates. ON BOXING 204
from The New York Times Magazine
Cynthia Ozick. THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL: WASHINGTON SQUARE, 1946 219
from Harper's Magazine
Edward Rothstein. THE BODY OF BACH 227
from The New Republic
Frederick Turner. VISIONS OF THE PACIFIC 240
from Southwest Review
Gore Vidal. ON ITALO CALVINO 254
from The New York Review of Books
John Wain. JULIA 268
from The American Scholar
Biographical Notes 283
Notable Essays of 1985 287
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