Fall 2006

• An exclusive excerpt from Michael Chabon’s forthcoming novel The Yiddish Policeman’s Union. • A new installment of Art Spiegelman’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*!” • Tony Kushner’s play “But the Giraffe!” • “War Thoughts at Home,” an unpublished poem by Robert Frost with commentary by Glyn Maxwell and Robert Stilling. • A dispatch from East Timor by Norman Ng. • E. L. Doctorow on Edgar Allan Poe, David Kirby on Rabelais and Montaigne, Rick Barot on Rilke, and Dave Lucas on Mark Strand. • Fiction by Dean Bakopoulos and Dan Chaon.