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.

The City Below, James Carroll’s ninth novel, which chronicles two brothers in Boston during the Kennedy years.

Running to Paradise: Yeats’s Poetic Art, M. L. Rosenthal’s provocative readings of Yeats’s lyric poetry and poetic drama.

The Angel of History, Carolyn Forché’s full-length poem-a meditation on how memory survives the unimaginable horrors of history.

Winter Numbers and Selected Poems 1965-1990, poems by Marilyn Hacker (W.W. Norton, forthcoming in Oct.)