Hiding in plain sight / Wendy Lesser
Storytelling / Stephen Greenblatt
The idea of courage / Louise Glück
The importance of plot / Diane Johnson
Poetry and pleasure / Robert Pinsky
Christopher Isherwood : getting things right / Thom Gunn
Wallace Stevens / Robert Hass
Gertrude Stein / Elizabeth Hardwick
Jane Austen vs. Henry James / Harold Brodkey
In defense of Daniel Deronda / Christopher Hitchens
Elevated shtick : S.J. Perelman / August Kleinzahler
Unbridled restraint : J.R. Ackerley / Arthur Lobow
The dead father : a remembrance of Donald Barthelme / Phillip Lopate
Bob Dylan / Christopher Ricks
As news spreads : Danny Lyon's photographs / Daniel Wolff
On modern art & artists / W.S. Di Piero
The artist's model / Harriet Shapiro
Rilke dancing / Mindy Aloff
A note on Bunraku / Susan Sontag
Home and the world : reflections on Satyajit Ray / Steve Vinebert
The zipper / Leonard Michaels
The last American dream : The Manchurian candidate / Greil Marcus
Do he have your number, Mr. Jeffrey? / Gayle Pemberton
On waitressing / Irene Oppenheim
On dumpster diving / Lars Eighner
Glorius reflections upon the five of hearts and other wild cards in the national deck / Gore Vidal
Clio among the old folks / Thomas Laqueur
Her secrets / John Berger
Vital signs / Natalie Kusz.
