Celestial Timepiece

The 41st issue of Ontario Review, originally published Fall/Winter 1994–95, is now available online.

Featuring photographs by Bill Ravanesi, the issue also includes a drama feature with plays commissioned for the First Annual New Play Festival at the McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ, in January 1994.

Drama

• Smart Choices for the New Century
  Jane Anderson
• He Was a Big Boy, Still Is
  Leigh Bienen
• Prologue from To Know a Monster
  Emily Mann
• An Act of Devotion
  Deborah Tannen

Fiction

• “Going Through the Change”
  Janice Daugharty
• “Wildcats”
  William Black
• “Chicken in the Box”
  Soo Christiansen

Poetry

• from The Ghost of Eden (“Sleeping Paint,” “The Pools,” “The Smell of Snow”)
  Chase Twichell
• “To Mr. Jefferson on the Occasion of My ‘Madness,'” “The Campaign Manager Talks Shop”
  Jon Davis
• from The Astonishing Weight of the Dead (“The Call,” “I’ll Be Right Back”)
  Tom Wayman
• “Blackbird Spring”
  William Heyen
• “Colette’s Last Cat,” “121 Waverly Place”
  J.P. White
• “At Freud’s House”
  Enid Shomer
• “Going Out”
  Donald Hall
• “Phone Calls,” “Evolved People”
  Gary Soto

Photographs

• South End Nights
  Bill Ravanesi

Ontario Review, A North American Journal of the Arts, was published from 1974 to 2008 by Raymond J. Smith and Joyce Carol Oates.