THE LITERARY REVIEW

The Rat's Nest

VOL. 54 | NO. 04


  • Editor’s Note

  • Cover Note

  • POETRY
  • Kathleen Graber, Diane Mehta, Robert Polito, Jeffrey Renard Allen, H.L. Hix, Cole Swensen, Weston Cutter, Kathryn Nuernberger, Dan Beachy-Quick, Sesshu Foster, Steve Davenport, James Richardson, Kelly
    Cherry, Meghan O’Rourke, Shane McCrae, Jeffrey Yang, Tom Sleigh
  • To Pass the Time That Passes Anyway

  • David Macey, translator
  • Catullus: 94; Catullus: 101; Catullus: 105; Catullus: 112

  • Judith Skillman
  • Cloisonné; Montreal, 1946; Gallows Bird; Thirteen

  • Myronn Hardy
  • Platoon; What the Tide Leaves

  • James Capozzi
  • Poem Called “On the Figure and Its Realities”; The Natural People; Universal Description of the Known World Without End; The Dream of the Zombies

  • ENGLAND
  • Fani Papageorgiou
  • The Just So People

  • Craig Morgan Teicher
  • Grief: A Celebration

  • Henry Israeli
  • This Poem Will Not Die, So I Beat It Senseless; A Nebula; Braindead; Monuments

  • John Marvin
  • His Story of the Folly; whatever happened to ae: an iou most fowl

  • Laurie Lamon
  • Valentine; Pain Thinks of the Star Nosed Mole; The child is tired

  • FICTION
  • Priscilla Becker
  • Failures of Imagination

  • Laura Eve Engel and Adam Peterson
  • [Spoiler Alert]

  • Tamas Dobozy
  • The Other László Erdész

  • Elahzar Rao
  • Saudade

  • BRAZIL
  • Avital Gad-Cykman
  • Footmarks

  • CANADA
  • Chris Tarry
  • Love Story

  • Kevin Lutz
  • Giving Up the Ghost

  • Jacob White
  • Your Father Needs More Time
  • INTERVIEWS
  • Alex Stein and Yahia Lababidi
  • It Could Have Been Otherwise

  • Zachary Lazar and Dana Spiotta
  • Stone Arabia

  • BOOKS
  • A Collection of Thoughts on Lynne Tillman, on the Occasion of the Publication of Her Twelfth Book, Someday This Will Be Funny
  • By Ruth Curry

  • David Foster Wallace
  • The Pale King
  • By Wyatt Williams

  • Can Xue
  • Vertical Motion
  • By Drew Calvert

  • Martin Espada
  • The Trouble Ball
  • By Michael Thurston

  • Alina Bronsky
  • The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
  • By Marion Wyce

  • The Shortlist

  • G.C. Waldrep and John Gallagher
  • Your Father on the Train of Ghosts
  • By Andrew McKay

  • Gina Berriault
  • Stolen Pleasures
  • By Jeanne-Marie Jackson

  • Brandon Shimoda
  • The Girl Without Arms
  • By F. Daniel Rzicznek

  • Albert Mobilio
  • Touch Wood
  • By John King

  • Lyudmilla Ulitskaya
  • Daniel Stein, Interpreter
  • By Josh Billings

  • CONTRIBUTORS