Interview: Martin Amis talks with A.M. Homes
Tale Spin: Brooks Hansen on the plot against plot
Comic Relief: Dave Eggers on new comic books
Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on new monographs
Bibliophile: Tom Vanderbilt on book scrap
Rick Moody on Out of the Woods: Stories, by Chris Offutt
M.G. Lord on The World and Other Places: Stories, 1986-1999 by Jeanette Winterson
Robert Polito on Waterloo Sunset, by Ray Davies
Lee Smith on Sea Battles on Dry Land: Essays, by Harold Brodkey
Jim Shepard on Intimacy, by Hanif Kureishi
Stephen Wright on Burning Girl, by Ben Neihart
Richard Howard on Figurehead and Other Poems, by John Hollander; The River Sound: Poems, by W.S. Merwin; and Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1997, by Adrienne Rich
Jennifer Berman on My People's Waltz, by Dale Ray Phillips
David Ryan on Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan
Benjamin Taylor on For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, by Nathan Englander
Deborah Eisenberg on Like Never Before, by Ehud Havazelet
Eve Babitz on Original Bliss, by A.L. Kennedy
Lynn Freed on Teeth of the Dog, by Jill Ciment
Jill Bialosky on Evening News, by Marly Swick
J.G. Ballard on Pages from the Glossies: Facsimilies 1956-1998, by Helmut Newton, edited by June Newton and Walter Keller
Peter Plagens on Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture
David Bowman on Detecting Texts: The Metaphysical Detective Story from Poe to Postmodernism, edited by Patricia Merivale and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Kristin Eliasberg on The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky: Unexpurgated Edition, translated by Kyril FitzLyon, edited by Joan Acocella
Howard Hampton on The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, by J. Hoberman
Allucquère Rosanne Stone on Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery, by Sander L. Gilman
David Toop on Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music Myth, edited by Karen Kelly and Evelyn McDonnell
Bruce Sterling on The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink, by Mark Dery
Tiffany Lee Brown on TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, by Erik Davis
Janice P. Nimura on A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces, by Lawrence Weschler
Arthur C. Danto on Cubism in the Shadow of War: The Avant-Garde and Politics in Paris, by David Cottington
Gordon Grice on The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon, by W.J.T. Mitchell
Thomas Frank on Structures of the Jazz Age: Mass Culture, Progressive Education, and Racial Disclosures in American Modernism, by Chip Rhodes
Marjorie Welish on Oulipo Compendium, edited by Harry Matthews and Alastair Brotchie