EDITORIAL:    One of my favorite moments as an editor comes when I sit down to assemble the pieces we have collected for an issue of Harvard Review. The problem at this point is no longer one of selection or editing but rather one of sequencing. How do the various poems, stories, essays fit together? What goes—or, even more importantly, does not go—with what? My mother, who was an artist and curator for many years, often used to talk to me about the installation when we went to art exhibits. “See how this painting makes that one look terrible?” she would say. “Now if they’d only had the sense not to hang them together you would see that they are both quite good." (read more)