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Winter 2001

Church on Saturday Night: Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion

By Michael Nelson
CRITICISM / Spring 1987

Island, 1949

By Joyce Carol Oates

Walking the crude rock
  dam above the
rapids. Why are you
  doing it?—
you might fall,
  drown,

Autumn 2000

Can You Prove It Didn’t Happen?

By Abe Kriegel
Winter 1987

Dirt and Development in India

By Murray Milner
POETRY / Summer 2002

A Sound Like Distant Thunder

By James Tate
Summer 1986

Crossing

By Joan Aleshire
POETRY / Autumn 2002

Dog

By Robert Wrigley
Spring 1986

The Green Room, Spring 1986

Spring 2003

What’s Wrong—And Right—With American Higher Education?

By James Axtell
Spring 1988

Grief

By Mark Halliday