Brick 87

Between love and language I choose / love and language.

                                                                                           — Sharon Olds

In this issue:

Juan Gabriel Vásquez takes on a literary tradition
Colum McCann & Chandran Madhu hurry hard in Latin
Don Paterson’s hidden talent
Eric Karpeles on Elizabeth Bishop’s portrait
Marian Botsford Fraser on Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel
Alissa Valles on pain and writing
Aleksander Wat’s diary
Zbigniew Herbert on Sigmund Freud
Pete Najarian’s music memoir
Anthony Milosz meets Leonor Fini’s cats
Christine Pountney confesses
Jim Harrison on the lessons of pain
Stories by Czeslaw Milosz, Annie Russell, and Jeff Walker
Poetry by Sharon Olds, Ken Babstock, Christopher Reid, Robin Robertson, and Czeslaw Milosz
Eleanor Wachtel interviews Edmund de Waal 
James Salter talks to Kevin Rabalais
Karen Solie in conversation with Ken Babstock
Joseph Brodsky talks to Sam Solecki

Plus:

A photo-essay on the survivors of Stalingrad by Emma Dodge Hanson and Jochen Hellbeck

And in The Review:

Michael Winter, Michael Redhill, Rebecca Silver Slayter, and Ismail Andersson

Photos and illustrations by:

Sir J. E. Alexander, Martin Helmut Reis, stef lenk, Mark Byk, Josef Breitenbach, Zbigniew Herbert, Marian Botsford Fraser, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Mara Korkola, Kristine Tortora, and Jim Gronau