Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring

Contents

Front Matter, The Iowa Review, 45/1 Spring 2015

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring

    Pistol Whip

    • Katherine Schifani

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 1–12

    Pressing On

    • M. E. Hope

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 13–13

    Turtle

    • M. E. Hope

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 14–15

    Outer Wear

    • M. E. Hope

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 16–16

    Truth

    • M. E. Hope

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 17–17

    On Picking the Right Accessories for Dropping My Daughter Off at College

    • M. E. Hope

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 18–19

    Pigs is Pigs and Eggs is Eggs

    • Vishwas R. Caitonde

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 20–30

    Rue

    • Mark Levine

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 31–32

    Serpent

    • Mark Levine

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 33–33

    Messenger

    • Mark Levine

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 34–34

    Phenomenon

    • Julie Henson

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 35–35

    Why I Stopped Being Chinese

    • Xu Xi

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 36–40

    The Best White Rapper in Berea, Ohio

    • Daniel A. Hoyt

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 41–59

    Veterans Portrait Project

    • Stacy L. Pearsall

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 60–68

    The Chaff

    • Brian Van Reet

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 69–81

    Like a Novice Disciple

    • Muhamed Abdelnaby

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 82–85

    On This Side

    • Yuko Sakata

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 86–105

    Listening

    • Michael Fessler

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 106–125

    #37-42 from After The Fact: Scripts & Postscripts

    • Marvin Bell

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 126–126

    Fairy Tale

    • Christopher Merrill

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 127–127

    The Evangelicals

    • Marvin Bell

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 128–128

    After the Workshop

    • Christopher Merrill

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 129–129

    Luxury of Circumstance

    • Marvin Bell

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 130–130

    From the Vineyard to the Sea

    • Christopher Merrill

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 131–131

    Forensics

    • Marvin Bell

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 132–132

    Winter Animal

    • G. C. Waldrep

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 133–133

    Silver Spring

    • G. C. Waldrep

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 134–135

    The Battle Within: Sexual Assault in America's Military

    • Mary F. Calvert

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 136–144

    The Museum of the Dearly Departed

    • Rebecca Makkai

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 145–162

    How We Lost the War

    • Terry Hertzler

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 163–163

    Master Sergeant Stickley

    • Terry Hertzler

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 164–164

    Walking Point

    • Terry Hertzler

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 165–165

    What I Lost in the War

    • Terry Hertzler

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 166–166

    The Only Jewelry I Wear

    • Terry Hertzler

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 167–167

    Hesco

    • James W. Walley

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 168–172

    Unanswered

    • Adam O'Fallon Price

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 173–176

    Smoke and Shadows

    • Tatyana Tolstaya

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 177–191

    excerpts from Pistorius Rex

    • Joyelle Mcsweeney

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 192–193

    Meet Miss Subways

    • Kevin Kopelson

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 194–200

    How God is Like a Truffle

    • Dana Roeser

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 201–203

    The Creative Precariat

    • Loren Glass

    Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 204–210

    Contributors' Notes and Back Matter, The Iowa Review, 45/1 Spring 2015

      Volume 45 • Issue 1 • 2015 • Spring • 211–214