Editor's Corner

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)

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.)