American review, 18 : [electronic resource] the magazine of new writing.

Edited by Theodore Solotaroff.

Disguises / Ian McEwan -- The changeling / Irving Feldman -- On stasis in progress / Günter Grass -- Paragraph 35 ; Paragraph 37 / Hayden Carruth -- Debriefing / Susan Sontag -- The news & the weather / Rika Lesser -- Dreaming / Rudy Kikel -- Why 135 vial of blood are missing from general hospital / Brendan Galvin -- Music lessons / Michael Rossman -- It is there / Muriel Rukeyser -- The Tiajuana line / Michael Decker -- Downers / Leonard Michaels -- For borges / Michael Berryhill -- The man in the recreation room / Edward Harkness -- The clay war / Barry Targan -- Peripheries / Allen Wiggins -- Poem, partly found, partly fumbled / G.T. Wright -- Album of a volunteer orderly / Stanley Kauffmann -- With a bottle of blue nun to all my friends / Madeline Defrees -- The art of dying ; You and I : a sonnet / Tom Disch -- Good housekeeping / Rosellen Brown -- Lavern and some greens / Hugh Walthall -- A celebration of light / Mary Kathleen O'Donnell -- Recip- / Heather McHugh -- Occasional verses / Marilyn Hacker -- Marriage à la mode / Philip Roth.