Infernal Return: Lee Smith on the Dante revival
Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs
Paper Trail: Mark Dery on the burden of reams
Interview: Jim Crace talks with David L. Ulin
Fiction Forecast by Kera Bolonik
First Novels by Darcy Cosper
Meta Morph: Brian Evenson on John Barth's literary legacy
Benjamin Anastas on The Devil's Larder, by Jim Crace
Robert Polito on The Gourmet Club, by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Vitaly Chernetsky on 4 by Pelevin, by Victor Pelevin
Adam Kirsch on Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald
Lynn Crawford on The Complexities of Intimacy, by Mary Caponegro
Joshua Clover on To Repel Ghosts, by Kevin Young
Sally Eckhoff on Everything You Need, by A.L. Kennedy
Alexandra Ringe on The Subject Steve, by Sam Lipsyte
John Yau on Dark Back of Time, by Javier Marías
Lucinda Rosenfeld on Eva Moves the Furniture, by Margot Livesey
Ammiel Alcalay on Charles Olson's Selected Letters, edited by Ralph Maud
Gary Indiana on Bernhard's life and work
Chronology: a biography in brief
Testimonials: Rick Moody, Sven Birkerts, Geoff Dyer, Lynne Tillman, and others pay tribute to Bernhard
A Reader's Guide: Bernhard's novels at a glance, by Thomas D'Adamo
Excerpts from the novels
William Monahan on The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton, introduction by William H. Gass
Luc Sante on Where Dead Voices Gather, by Nick Tosches
Harry Cooper on Philip Guston's "Poor Richard," by Debra Bricker Balken
Damon Krukowski on Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology, edited by Mary Ann Caws
Dani Shapiro on The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative, by Vivian Gornick
Lisa Levy on Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Nancy Milford
Minna Proctor on Where the Stress Falls: Essays, by Susan Sontag
David Grubbs on The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography, by A.J.A. Symons, introduction by A.S. Byatt