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November 1, 2004

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From the Issue

Poems

Motes

By Anthony Hecht

The Current Cinema

Aftermaths

By Anthony Lane

A Reporter at Large

The Believer

By Peter J. Boyer

Pop Notes

Life After Death

Tables for Two

Café Regular

By Andrea Thompson

The Art World

Memento Mori

By Peter Schjeldahl

Poems

All Hallow’s Eve

By Dorothea Tanning

Briefly Noted

Brodsky: A Personal Memoir

Pop Music

1979

By Sasha Frere-Jones

Briefly Noted

The Normals

Q. & A.

Mother Russia

Books

The Great I Am

By John Updike

Briefly Noted

The Line of Beauty

Briefly Noted

The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell

Comment

The Choice

By The Editors