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A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire

A literary magazine named after the Vedic god of fire

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2003

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Contents

Fiction Essays Poetry Conversations Reviews

Fiction

errata from the field: demographics

mission statement, or the Saturday after Sinatra died

Taj Mahal and Petha

by Ranjini George

by Anne Germanacos

French, Vacuum, Butterfly

by Cristina Henriquez

by Daphne Kalotay

The Kubrick Version

by Ann Lewinson

Essays

Objects and Digressions

by Sven Birkerts

from The Enchanted Desna

by Alexander Dovzhenko

Translated from the Ukrainian by Dzvinia Orlowsky

Towards a Cultural Geography

by David Keplinger

Shadowboxing: For the Iraqi Dead

by Askold Melnyczuk

Letter to the Editor

by Jacob Strautmann

Poetry

by Suzanne E. Berger

My Heart is the Smallest Catafalque

by Cynthia Cruz

by John Diamond-Nigh

O Hollywood (1)

by Matthew Dickman

O Hollywood (2)

by Matthew Dickman

O Hollywood (3)

by Matthew Dickman

West of the Soul

by Debora Greger

Hafizullah Amin

by Raza Ali Hasan

by Robert Bernard Hass

Cow Ruminating—Ditto Donkey

Poem in Memory of a House

If you are traveling with a live child

by Betsy Johnson-Miller

A Sentence from Tacitus

The Most Unsafe Market in Jerusalem

by Sharona Ben-Tov Muir

The Country I Am From

by E. I. Pruitt

Faulkner’s Elvis

by Ryan M. Reece

by Martha Rhodes

Mrs. Engebretsen’s Banquet, Glendorado, Minnesota, Eighteen Seventy-Something

by Brian Satrom

by Frederick Speers

by Samn Stockwell

Jill Returns to Cameron

by Jacob Strautmann

A Hotel in the Rain

by Richard Tillinghast

Conversations

Literature and Prayer: A Talk with Ilan Stavans

by Kim Ben-Porat

A Conversation with Lise Haines

by Sherry Ellis

Creature of Habit: An Interview with Jill McCorkle

by Sherry Ellis

An Interview with Tom Sleigh

by Allegra Wong

Reviews

The Optical is Topical

by Kevin McFadden

2003

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