Editor's Corner

Tim O’Brien: In the Lake of the Woods (Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence), a novel about a Minnesota politician who searches for his missing wife and confronts long-suppressed memories of My Lai.

Charles Simic: The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs (Univ. of Michigan), a collection of memoirs, essays, and journal entries that illuminate the origins of Simic’s poetry.

Maura Stanton: Life Among the Trolls (David R. Godine), a poetry collection that explores themes of love and hate.

Richard Tillinghast: The Stonecutter’s Hand (Godine), a collection of poems that extols the virtues and pleasures of travel.

Tobias Wolff: In Pharoah’s Army: Memories of the Lost War (Knopf), a memoir of Wolff’s Vietnam years.

Women, Animals, and Vegetables, essays and stories by Maxine Kumin (W.W. Norton)

Split Horizon, poems by Thomas Lux (Houghton Mifflin)

Shelter, a novel by Jayne Anne Phillips (Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence)

The Inferno of Dante, a new verse translation by Robert Pinsky (Farrar, Straux & Giroux)