Index Volume CXVII, 2009

Index Volume CXVII, 2009 Fiction Baldwin, D. N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Rat Hunt 38 Barton, Marlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Into Silence 335 Berry, Wendell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Dark Country 163 Clayton, John J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting Out in One Piece 359 Fowler, Giles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Game’s End 378 Hoffman, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Spirit in Me 1 Holder, L. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Midwinter 503 Justice, Jean Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Smell of Ashes 394 Keithley, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Madonna of Seville 193 MacInnes, Mairi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arcady and After 410 Packer, Nancy Huddleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Her Men 425 Swan, Gladys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spirit over Water 440 White, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Night Miles 456 Wright, Brooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Queen of Hearts 475 POETRY Brosman, Catharine Savage . . . . . . . . . Eddying Currents (four poems) 524 Carruth, Hayden . . . . . . . . . . . . The Beginning of the End (six poems) 531 Creech, Morri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inscrutable Geometries (three poems) 181 Davis, William Virgil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Worlds Elsewhere (three poems) 535 Fairchild, B. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . City Voices and Scenes (three poems) 55 Galvin, Brendan . . . . . . . . . . Gods Out of Their Element (four poems) 538 Kloefkorn, William . . . . . . . . . . . The Parchment of Time (two poems) 542 Krisak, Len . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rounds (three poems) 60 Lieberman, Laurence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Soot Face 184 Mahapatra, Jayanta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dreams of Iron and the 545 Hurt of History (seven poems) Makuck, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . The Times that Are No More (two poems) 552 McDowell, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talking with the Dead 62 McNair, Wesley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Uphill All the Way (two poems) 64 Minus, Ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Far Short of Heaven (two poems) 190 Moore, John Rees . . . . . Bright Glimpses of Immortality (three poems) 555 Mott, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Players at Play (two poems) 67 Phillips, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chaos and Harmony (three poems) 69 Smith, R. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Among the Shadows (two poems) 557 Swan, Gladys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spying and Spinning (two poems) 73 678 index ESSAYS Chappell, Fred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Bottoms and the 592 Evolution of the gob Aesthetic Furst, Lilian R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Travel Rug for Graduate School: 248 Girton College in the 1950s Hart, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Ellmann’s Oxford Blues 268 Hudson, Marc . . . . . . . . “A Voice at Once Contemporary and Ancient”: 577 The Enduring Value of John Haines’s Winter News Livatino, Mel . . In Search of a Golden Bird Upon a Bough of Memory 223 Makuck, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brendan Galvin’s Sense of Otherness 611 Martin, John M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “The Lust of the Eye”: 560 Landscape in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren Packer, Nancy Huddleston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wallace Stegner: 208 A Passionate and Committed Heart Rovit, Earl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Friends Indeed 75 Stern, Richard . . . . . . . Glimpse, Encounter, Acquaintance, Friendship 95 West, James L. W. iii . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Styron, Ellison, and the 106 Difficulties of Friendship THE STATE OF LETTERS Allen, Bruce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Updike and the Past Recaptured 490 Benson, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . English at Vanderbilt: A Recollection 299 Berry, Wendell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hello, Hayden! 644 Buffington, Robert . . . . . . . . Revaluation: Conrad’s Bourgeois Tragedy 495 Cardullo, Bert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Images in a Vast World: 151 Homage to Stark Young (1881–1963) Gerber, Merrill Joan . . . . . . . . . . . “In the End We All Come to Earth”: 312 Memories of Smith Kirkpatrick Haines, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Visit with a Russian Poet 640 Heddendorf, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Pennsylvanian 487 Hepburn, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Author’s Empty Purse Revisited 628 Masters, Hilary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The End of Something 147 Minus, Ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Playgoing in Manhattan 155 Moulton, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Beyond Resignation 141 Pinsker, Sanford . . . . . . . John Updike, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom, and I 492 Sale, Roger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Generation of 1950 318 Stern, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . On John Updike 494 Watson, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Q Factor 292 ARTS AND LETTERS Barbarese, J. T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Four Translations of Dante’s Inferno 647 Berthoff, Warner . . . . . From High Modernism to Middlebrow Culture 125 Berthoff, Warner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kafka Again 499 index 679 Engel, William E. . . . . A Rich Harvest: Recent Books on Shakespeare 655 Giraldi, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carver’s Dream 669 Gwynn, R. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Narratives Masonic 134 Howard, Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In Sunlight and in Shadow 665 Minus, Ed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Competent, Fair, Good, Better, Best 331 Pickering, Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . God’s Apology 114 Pritchard, William H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Huxley in His Letters 121 Richardson, D. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Difficulties of Being an 130 Independent Intellectual BOOKS REVIEWED Benfey, Christopher: A Summer of Hummingbirds . . . . . Cushing Strout xxxi Cade, Jared: Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cushing Strout xv Campbell, James: Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James L. W. West iii lxxix Ciardi, John, trans.: Inferno by Dante Alighieri . . . . . . . . J. T. Barbarese 647 Coetzee, J. M.: Diary of a Bad Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Rees Moore xlvii Corngold, Stanley, et al., eds.: Franz Kafka: The Office Writings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warner Berthoff 499 Crowder, Ashby Bland, ed...