| Benchmarks | Benchmarks (Anthropoetics XVI, no. 2) |
| By Eleanor Scholz | Justifying the Esthetic in Kafka's "Josephine the Singer” |
| By John O'Carroll and Chris Fleming | The Dying of the Epic |
| By Antonio Machuco | Violence and Truth in Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino |
| By Marina Ludwigs | “A Democracy of Touch”: Masochism and Tenderness in D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover |
| By Thomas F. Bertonneau; With contributions from Susan D. Bertonneau | “Le Cor” and “La Mort du loup”: The Scenic Imagination in Two Poems by Alfred de Vigny |
| By Andrew Bartlett | Originary Human Personhood |