The Antioch Review back issues from January 2008:
Breaking the rules.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> In 1994 we published a harrowing story by James Purdy titled "Brawith." It is a little-noticed tale about a man returned from a war who <Italic>"was slowly oozing from almost every pore in his body, and it was not that he did not think with words anymore, or not hear ...
Vickie's Pour House: A Soldier's Peace.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> The envelope addressed to Mrs. Johnny McCoy tips me off that the writer was an old bar friend of my father. I have discovered the cache of sympathy cards thirty years after my father's death, in my mother's bottom dresser drawer. Clearing the house is an ongoing process, ...
South Atlantic, 1982: A Forgotten War (Part II).(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Bold>Surrender</Bold> The taxi driver said there was no solution: nobody had asked the one civilized question, "How did Britain and Argentina get themselves into a war in 1982, and still call themselves civilized?"Máximo Lafert (1924-92), ...
My Wife, Their Sister.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> Only after the ceremony did I learn that when you marry a Muslim woman she remains married to her brothers as well--about hall a billion of them. This bit of knowledge became evident on our travels to lands where Muslims and Jews live or once lived together in close ...
A Field of Gray Houses.(Short story)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> Scott imagined dispirited bruins licking bare spots into one another's fur. He drove this route to visit his mother on Sundays, and each week he had watched the development proceed, from orange flags in a soybean field to a field of gray houses. This weekend he had gone ...
Cafe Life in Jerusalem.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> Fiby Suissa is a large woman, yet very stylish. She wears a beret over her black hair, along with a blouse and an ankle-length, dark skirt. Slightly out of breath, she maneuvers behind the counter at the Café Zigmond, which she runs with her son, Albert. She kneels to ...
Departure.(Short story)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> Franjo Rauschenberg's future began with a fierce migraine, which made the earth shake and brought him to the edge of heaven. He pressed his head, where the pain hammered, between his arms and ran to the toilet bowl, kneeling there a quarter-hour at a time and purging ...
Winter.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> Hard chop under another hard chop stopped by knot stout near black slivers dry needles and the Funnies pop under hotdogs dipped in black knot spreading through over-done potatoes hearts on a ...
Cesar Vallejo Is Dead.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> It's snowing in Santiago de Chuco and no one can believe it, not the lonesome, backroad dogs or the insane. The stars exploded, says a man standing at the window in his socks. The world is changing; those twins, hope and dread, snip each other's ...
WIND.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> Should I go with my lover to find the wind, or should I go with the wind to find my lover? Seers see sphere to sphere in rescinded air. The plovers fly over. Tamarind-taste of my lover's lips, the little liquored chill. Ink the compass rose! ...
Lightning, Then Rain.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"><Bold>1.</Bold> First it's fast, kiss, clothes, coming still standing. Then, curtains pitched past, we ease ourselves down, down to the white comforter, down the sudden rain. <Bold>2.</Bold> Adrift in midnight, hard traffic nine ...
After Rain.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> On the one hand: the world is not any one thing. On the other: nobody gets what she wants. Choose the first line, and people will call you comic; the second, tragic, if they call you at all. Look--you might say then--at how we end up: isn't ...
Don Ho Esperanto.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> Tiny bubbles. Tiny bubbles. July acid trip. Oozing snooze. Country Western on Mars. Twinkly champagne chatter. Shatter safely on the dance floor. Distant ...
Documentary.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> He said he would cross the country in a car soon And, trying to be helpful, I asked what kind of car. A brown car. He came back and cashed in his pension. It was a whopper. The brown car ran well each mile West and East. Are you set for life, I ...
Dwarf in the Shade of a Eucalyptus.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> No one's happy this morning In the rubble at Nablus, the wreckway between The Mount of Blessings and the Mount of Curses. But I've been watching a goldfinch Peck at the finch-feeder, heavy sock of seeds Strangling from a green gallows. In Kabul, ...
Grace Fable.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> --Every Anno Domini Ghosts (there grief musk) of ourselves mooring down in the grasses, peat, tea, sea-kind out of water, and rib-sway against sea-ice before larger floe, ...
Straws.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> The kind that break the camel's back, the kind at which we clutch: they can be one and the same. Item: my poor friend T., in such a panic over the one he'd grabbed attempting to escape his grief: his own blogsite, of all things, which buoyed him ...
So Quiet Sending.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> not elephants in a train to your door, not sunflowers that bloom through the concrete so your old Impala has to swerve. I have no need for air, nor any fruit, no need for bite a chip from the moon. ...
When The Great Teacher Dies.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other">for David Citino At first I called the owl scratching at his nest-- then I called the cellar spider and she shook her web terrible then I called the mudpuppy but he just flicked his wide red gill then I called the ...
The Way of All the Earth.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> Joshua 23:14 In various ways we'll be taken; fine, except that we know it, and just when we've tricked it away someone nearby--a sister, say, or a child--proves it again as fact. More pleasant to be one of those ...
Turkey.(Poetry)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> Look at the wild turkeys in the yard. Gifts these are For those who strike out early, Green one morning, Silver the next. <Italic>Meleagris gallo pavo:</Italic> Guinea hen, chicken, peacock-- Books you've written sprouting up Like tombstones in ...
A Winter Day in Suzdal.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> The ancient centers of Vladimir and Suzdal, which lie to the north and within easy reach of Moscow, are among the treasure houses of Russian architecture. Suzdal, on the Kamenka River, was once a holy city and has many splendid churches dating from the twelfth century ....
Hokum on the Rise: The 70-Percent Solution.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> Julian Howell, the family doctor who cared for me during my childhood in Selma, Alabama, had an impish smile and a garrulous, backslapping charm that soothed the most anxious patient. A few years after my graduation from medical school, when Julian was approaching ...
The Five Eggs.(Short story)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> Juanita rudely nudged Juan awake. "I haven't eaten for three days. I think I'm going to die.""We have nothing better to do than to see who dies first?" Juan groaned as he rolled over.Neither decided to contend with his question for the moment. A ...
Lily Pad.(Short story)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Bold>Yreka</Bold> Journal, he came in today, and he wasn't alone.Ricky saw him first. "What did that boy take out of his backpack?"I was steaming milk for a latte and I didn't look up right away because I knew Ricky was watching ...
Poetry in Palestine and Israel.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> Sadder than Water by Samih Al-Qasim, translated by Nazih Kassis. Ibis Editions, 181 pp., $15.95 (paper).Why Did You Leave the Horse Alone? by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Jeffrey Sacks. Archipelago, 197 pp., $18.00 (paper).The Butterfly's Burden by ...
Small Press Purgatory.('Whose World Is This?' and 'The Woman in the Woods')(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> Whose World Is This? by Lee Montgomery. University of Iowa Press, 93 pp., $15.00 (paper).The Woman in the Woods by Ann Joslin Williams. Eastern Washington University Press, 199 pp., $14.95 (paper).Greetings from "small press purgatory"--the place, ...
All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Bold>All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories</Bold> by Lee K. Abbott. W.W. Norton & Company, 480 pp., $14.95 (paper). Abbott doesn't waste a word in this collection; every scene packs a punch--almost overwhelmingly so, making this an aptly titled ...
On Chesil Beach.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Bold>On Chesil Beach</Bold> by Ian McEwan. Doubleday, 203 pp., $22.00. An evening in July 1962. Florence Ponting and Edward Mayhew are married in Oxford, then drive to Chesil Beach on the Dorchester coast where they will spend their honeymoon night. ...
Playboy's College Fiction: A Collection of 21 Years of Contest Winners.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Bold>Playboy's College Fiction: A Collection of 21 Years of Contest Winners</Bold> , ed. Alice K. Turner. Playboy Press, 336 pp., $14.95 (paper). It's wonderful to finally see, in one anthology, the winning selections from <Italic>Playboy</Italic> 's annual ...
A Woman in Jerusalem.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Bold>A Woman in Jerusalem</Bold> by A. B. Yehoshua. Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin. Harcourt, 237 pp., $25.00. A woman dies in the market near her home, the victim of a suicide murder. Her only identification is a pay stub from a large Jerusalem ...
Waterlight: Selected Poems.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Bold>Waterlight: Selected Poems</Bold> by Kathleen Jamie. Graywolf Press, 108 pp., $17.50 (paper). If one of the dangers of translation is that it makes everything equally familiar, one of the pleasures of discovering the Scots words and phrasings glinting ...
Unknown Friends.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Bold>Unknown Friends</Bold> by Carl Dennis. Penguin Books, 75 pp., $18.00 (paper). The oxymoron of the title suggests the foci of Dennis's latest collection: connections between strangers and distances between intimates. Dennis's ideal is a generosity of exchange ...
California Sorrow.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... <Text rich="yes"> <Bold>California Sorrow</Bold> by Mary Kinzie. Alfred A. Knopf, 104 pp., $25.00. Ambitious and complex, Kinzie's seventh collection sets out a vision of the contemporary American condition, with its emotional betrayals, rampant consumerism, and environmental ...