Summer 2002

Volume 78/3

• The Good, The Bad, and the Phony: Six Famous Historians and their Critics by Michael Nelson • The Levy Family and Monticello by Melvin. I. Urofsky • Seasons by Emily Couric • Fiction by Matt Freidson, James Conrad McKinley, Henry Alley, Sheri Joseph, Ben Brooks • Poetry by Alan Williamson, John Witte, Joseph Lease, Stephen Margulies, James Tate, Stephen Dobyns, Mark Halliday

Summer 2002

Volume 78, Number 3

Print: $10.00

Essays

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2002

The Good, the Bad, and the Phony: Six Famous Historians and Their Critics

By Michael Nelson

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Seasons

By Emily Couric

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Climbing Over the Ethnic Fence: Reflections on Stanley Crouch and Philip Roth

By Sanford Pinsker

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Disturbing the Peace: Gerald W. Johnson In An Age of Conformity

By Vincent Fitzpatrick

ESSAYS / ISSUE: Summer 2002

The Levy Family and Monticello

By Melvin I. Urofsky

Memoir

MEMOIR / ISSUE: Summer 2002

My Mother and I Hear Her Death Approaching

By Simone Poirier-Bures

Criticism

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 2002

A Moral Temper

By Edward T. Chase

CRITICISM / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Notes on Current Books, Summer 2002

Fiction

FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Rest Stop

By Sheri Joseph

FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Other People’s Lives

By Ben Brooks

FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 2002

The Facts of Life

By Henry Alley

FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Fever

By James Conrad Mckinley

FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Not to Be Entered Into Lightly

By Geoffrey D. Witham

FICTION / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Strange New Homeland

By Matt Freidson

Poetry

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

(The Clouds Above the Mountains)

By Stephen Dobyns

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Where the Hills Come Down Like A Lion’s Paw on Summer

By Alan Williamson

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

The Beloved

By Mark Halliday

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Hearts

By John Witte

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Eleven Months

By Mark Halliday

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Survivor

By John Witte

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Playbill

By Mark Halliday

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Language

By Joseph Lease

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Eye Exam

By Stephen Margulies

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

Towards You

By Stephen Margulies

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

A Sound Like Distant Thunder

By James Tate

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

The Healing Ground

By James Tate

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

(At the Ocean He Studied the Waves)

By Stephen Dobyns

POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 2002

(Sometimes Confusion Was Veil)

By Stephen Dobyns

Editor's Desk

EDITOR'S DESK / ISSUE: Summer 2002

The Green Room, Summer 2002

By Staige D. Blackford

Contributor Profiles

Michael Nelson

Michael Nelson is professor of political science at Rhodes College. A former editor of The Washington Monthly, he has published twenty books on the American presidency, national elections, and higher education.

Melvin I. Urofsky

Melvin I. Urofsky is Professor Emeritus of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he continues as director of the doctoral program in public policy.