Winter
1997

A journal of literature, criticism and the arts, published quarterly since 1892.

ISSUE 217 • 192 PAGES
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From This Issue

ESSAY • MARTIN HALE

The Long Silence of the Archive

On the forgotten correspondence between two poets who never met, and what their imagined dialogue reveals about the century’s end.

FICTION • ELEANOR VOSS

Three Houses on the Ridge

A new story of inheritance, landscape and the quiet decisions that shape a family across four decades.

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CRITICISM • 28 PAGES

The Return of the Long Novel

Why readers are once again turning to works that demand weeks rather than hours, and what this shift says about attention in our time.

INTERVIEW

Thomas Pynchon on the Telephone

The reclusive author speaks at length for the first time since 1973 about maps, entropy and the pleasures of paper.

POETRY

Seven New Poems by Louise Glück

Winter sequence from the forthcoming collection, introduced by the author.

From the Archive

Selected Letters of Elizabeth Bishop, 1952–1979

An exclusive selection from the forthcoming volume, including previously unpublished correspondence with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell.

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