Table of Contents
2009 Winter
Eros
Introductory
Voices in Time
Game
- Phillip Lopate Goes Long: 2006 / Brooklyn
- Vintage Wines: 1 BC / Rome
- Gustave Flaubert Draws the Curtains: c. 1846 / Rouen
- Werther Pierced Through the Heart: 1777 / Walheim
- Anatole Broyard Encounters Radiance: 1947 / Greenwich Village
- Not Like This Before: c. 1250 / Konya
- Treasure on Earth: c. 950 BC / Jerusalem
- What's Your Hurry?: 1944 / New York City
- Dante Alighieri Writes a Sonnet: c. 1274 / Florence
- Vladimir Nabokov's More Poignant Bliss: 1952 / New England
- But Please, Mrs. Robinson: 1967 / Los Angeles
- Sweet Regret: 1694 / London
- What the Rams Do to the Ewes: c. 150 / Lesbos
- In Praise of Older Women: 1745 / Philadelphia
- Charles Mingus Decides to Wait: 1935 / Watts
- Rowing in Eden: c. 1861 / Amherst
- Burning in Separate Beds: c. 550 / Constantinople
- All in the Family: 150 / Athens
- Carpe Diem: c. 1650 / York
- Royal Ardor: 1528 / London
- Outburst of Rapture: 1912 / Venice
- Midsummer Night: c. 400 / China
- A Candle in the Sun: 1621 / Oxford
- Performance Anxiety: c. 1973 / America
- Price List: c. 1550 / India
- Boy Love: 1687 / Osaka
- The Food of Love: c. 1834 / Paris
- Nothing to Refuse: 1914 / St. Petersburg
- Strangers on a Train: 1959 / New York State
Set
- J. M. Coetzee Loses the Thread: 1980 / Cape Town
- Plato’s Other Half: c. 378 BC / Athens
- After Midnight: 1963 / Wyoming
- The Bread of Angels: c. 1919 / Paris
- Arriving Prematurely: c. 1670 / Oxfordshire
- Just Say No: 411 BC / Athens
- Giovanni Boccaccio Gets Himself to a Nunnery: 1348 / Florence
- An Emperor Unmanned: 1796 / Northern Italy
- Philip Roth Discovers Himself: c. 1946 / Newark
- Negotiation: c. 1200 / Provence
- I Dare Not Withdraw: 1856 / Brooklyn
- Sweet Sorrow: 1595 / Verona
- James Baldwin Tears Down That Wall: 1956 / Paris
- Free Love: 1795 / Paris
- Holy Communion: c. 1230 / Brabant
- Georges Bataille Defies Modesty: 1928 / France
- Bait and Switch: c. 61 / Pergamum
- Pure Being: c. 1902 / Munich
- His and Hers: c. 1618 / China
- Human Animals: 1948 / Bloomington
- The Joy of Discovery: 1967 / Hull
- Give and Get: 1998 / New York City
- Who Said No?: c. 1390 / London
- Presumptuous Beyond Belief: c. 1690 / Mexico City
- Miss Emmeline: c. 1816 / Virginia
- Gabriel García Márquez Sends a Message;: c. 1935 / Colombia
- Procopius Objects to a Marriage: c. 520 / Constantinople
- Love Comes for Anaïs Nin: 1931 / Paris
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Drops to His Knees: 1869 / Galicia
- Pain Becomes Pleasure: 1929 / Saigon
- Field Manual: c. 1547 / North Africa
- This Is How You Lose Her: 2007 / New York City
- Sunset: 1915 / Alexandria
Match
- David Foster Wallace Attends an Award Show: 1998 / Las Vegas
- Juvenal Condemns Adultery: c. 115 / Rome
- Men Call Me Chaste: c. 1128 / Nogent-sur-Seine
- Passive Languor: c. 1949 / Paris
- Against the Dying of the Light: 1585 / Aquitane
- Winter Moon: 23 BC / Rome
- For a Fallen Robin: c. 1964 / New York City
- Topography: c. 800 / India
- Ways to Get Rid of Him: c. 250 / India
- The Actual State of Sex: 1976 / Paris
- Thou Shalt Not: c. 1440 BC / Sinai
- The Psychological Red Tape: 1930 / Vienna
- The Brambles of Lust: c. 397 / Hippo
- François Rabelais Tampers with the Flesh: 1532 / Lyon
- Ernest Hemingway Inspects the Merchandise: c. 1924 / Paris
- Sharing the Apple: 1818 / London
- No Justice in the Eyes of Men: 431 BC / Corinth
- To Virginia Woolf: 1927 / Milan
- To Harold Nicolson: 1929 / Kent
- White Foam: c. 700 BC / Boeotia
- Gray example alt: 1651 / Paris
- Failing to Rise to the Occasion: 1684 / London
- Many Crowns of Violet: c. 590 BC / Lesbos
- The Moment of Parting: c. 1000 / Kyoto
- Confused Folly: 1883 / Paris
- Flannery O'Connor Stags a Moral: 1955 / Georgia
- Constancy Is Therefore Inconstancy: 1665 / Paris
- The Mead of Heaven: c. 1365 / Shiraz
- Royal Road to the Unconscious: c. 250 / Ephesus
- Desiring You Is Music: 1915 / New York City
Departments
Essays
- Fear and Loathing: by Dagmar Herzog
- Up Close and Personal: by Noga Arikha
- Hell House: by Jeff Sharlet
- Not About the Money: by William H. Gass
Conversations
Letters
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