256 pp. + adv. Contents: Tolstoy's American Translator: Letters to Elizabeth Hapgood, and article by Robert Whittaker; Tell Me Why; Evening on the Zattere; Midsummer Night in Venice; Venice: The Return in Winter, poems by Mark Rudman; From The Negro-Lover, a novella excerpt by Joyce Carol Oates; The Banquet; The Caravan; The Week after Easter, poems by Rachel Hadas; From Incisions, a novel excerpt by Gabriel Motola; Rivalry, a story by David H. Lynn; Recitation, a poem by David Wagoner; Where Dad Lived; Alarms; Hills, poems by Kevin Casey; Still Life, a poem by Elliot Figman; When We Parted, a poem by Tom Wayman; The Guitarist, a poem by David Breskin; Finch Nested, a poem by Kathryn Winograd; Grounded, a poem by Kawita Kandpal; The Competition, a poem by Rachel Levine; Killer, a story by Catherine Seto; Over the Moon, a story by Blake Maher; Decadence, a story by Brian Bouldry; No Last Names, a novel excerpt by Leslie Pietrzyk; Among the Missing, a story by Dan Chaon; Avulsion, a poem by Kathleen Halme; By Fire; By Earth, poems by Sharon Olds; ''We Are Easily Reduced''; Talking Processes, poems by HeidiLynn Nilsson; Final Real Things; Things That Don't Exist, poems by Paul Hoover; Girl with Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer; The 1950s; The Bull-Roarers, poems by W. S. DiPiero; Cat in an Empty Apartment, a poem by Wyslawa Szymborska translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak. Cover: Photograph of Leo Tolstoy taken by Sofiya Tolstoy ay Yasnaya Polyana. Back cover: Photograph of Isabel Hapgood, courtesy of the Isabel Florence Hapgood Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.