Issue Number 6, 2016

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Nobody Leaves in an Ordinary Way
by Heda Margolius Kovály,
translated from Czech by Helen Epstein

Literary Boston As I Knew It
an essay by William Dean Howells

Quardrupedism, a monologue by Brother Theodore

Fiction:

• By Way of Introduction by Keith Botsford
• The Yellow Rock by Vlad Savich
• The Town of Luck, part 2 of 2 (continued from CRJ No. 5)

Prose:

• an excerpt from Dolos by Peter Andersen
• an excerpt from Drowning Cities by Katharine Ainger
• a selection of Myths of Medford
• Isaac Disraeli on Psalm-singing

Poetry:

• Biblical Sense and Utterance by Ted Richer
• A Cycle of Visits to the Sanctuaries by Costas Tournakis
• Sonnet in which soldiers find beauty... by Ali Znaidi

William C. Brown's Ode to Rum on a broadside tuck-in

Photographs by Midlili, and a sketch by Philip Nikolayev

About our contributors

About our cover illustration: lin art taken from Column Capitals in al-Haram al-Sharif by John Wilkinson, published in Jerusalem by the Administration of Waqfs and Islamic Affairs, 1987; background text from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, published in London by J. Limbird in 1837.