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The short story "The Seals" by Lydia Davis is presented.

The article presents photographs of typical villagers in the Netherlands in the early part of the 20th century, particularly focusing on traditional costume and dress presented in the pictures, as well as remarking on the differences between dress by town.

Five short stories by Lydia Davis are presented. "If at the Wedding (At the Zoo)," "The Results of One Statistical Study," "The Language of Things in the House," "My Childhood Friend," and "Local Obits."

An essay is presented on the translation of the novel "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert into English. The author discusses the necessity of having multiple translations of the same book and describes her experience translating "Madame Bovary" from French to English. She lists factors that affect the quality of translations such as the translator's knowledge of foreign language and culture. She analyzes translations of "Madame Bovary" by authors including Eleanor Marx Aveling and Joan Charles.

Presents the short story "Ten Stories from Flaubert," by Lydia Davis.

ILLUMINATIONS By Arthur Rimbaud Translated by John Ashbery 175 pp. W. W. Norton & Company. $24.95. Some associations with the name Rimbaud are very familiar: the highly romantic photograph taken [...]

BURLESQUE DANCER By Liz Goldwyn author, Pretty Things Part of the appeal of the burlesque queens of the thirties and forties was that they were kind of approachable, even a [...]

LINE BY LINE In early-1970s Paris, Lydia Davis found an eccentric world of poets and artists and the discipline to follow her own path. A few months after I graduated [...]

In my last year of college and for some months after I graduated, I lived in an apartment on West 107th Street, just east of Broadway. I had various roommates [...]