"This is what Keith Botsford and I had hoped that our 'tabloid for literates' would be. And for years it has been just that. We are a pair of utopian codgers who feel we have a duty to literature. I hope we are not like those humane do-gooders who, when the horse was vanishing, still donated troughs in City Hall Square for thirsty nags." Saul Bellow In Issue 14, News from the Republic of Letters will feature?a major story by Yuri Buida, "Saturday," a chapter from Fathers by Keith Botsford, Antoinette from Chantal Loiseau Hunt, and a new story from Conall Ryan. There will also a major extract of a novel by Henryk Skwrcznski; and in the Archives Section, a story by Anna Maria Ortese. If readers sense a shift of direction, it will be that we are spreading our net still wider and becoming more 'international'. More original writing you'll not find elsewhere. The Republic of Letters is edited by Keith Botsford.