Ruth Bernard Yeazell on Vermeer and the language of poetry

Marjorie Garber, As 'Twere

Benjamin Westwood, The Queer Art of Ardent Reading

Eugene McCarraher on the effort to create a science of ethics

Francisco Unger on Frederick Seidel

George Hutchinson, Remembering the Peace Corps

Charles McNulty on King Lear

Ann Fabian on "that awful animal, a lady scientist"

Victor Brombert on learning from students

Neal Dolan, Something There Is That Loves a Wall. . .

Ali Zaidi on the translations of Daud Kamal

Fiction by John Kinsella, Michael McGuire, and James Reed

Poetry by Sylvie Baumgartel, John Canaday, and Karl Kirchwey