| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| INTERVIEW |
| Paul Auster, The Art of Fiction No. 178 |
| Jim Crace, The Art of Fiction No. 179 |
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| FICTION |
| Miranda July, Making Love in 2003 |
| Yiyun Li, Immortality |
| Heather Woodbury, What Ever |
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| FEATURE |
| Margaret Atwood, Der Lesende by Kathe Kollowitz |
| Charles Baxter, Fragments of Letters and Journals: 1998 |
| Roy Blount, Jr., Arbor Day, Study by Kathryn Freeman |
| Bill Buford, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Hortense Calisher, James Joyce Reading by Gisele Freund |
| Robert Coles, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Billy Collins, NYC c. 1957 by Dave Heath |
| Don DeLillo, Female Nude by Louise Nevelson |
| Morris Dickstein, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Stephen Donadio, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Dave Eggers, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex B-Side |
| Richard Ford, Goshen |
| Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections |
| Jonathan Galassi, Nude Reading by Roy Lichtenstein |
| Mavis Gallant, Diaries |
| John Guare, Glenway Wescott by Paul Cadmus |
| Allan Gurganus, La Lettre by Henri Matisse |
| Marilyn Hacker, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Donald Hall, Death as a Career Move |
| Daniel Halpern, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| David Hamilton, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Jim Harrison, Untitled (Woman Reading) by Balthus |
| Anthony Hecht, Limericks |
| Edward Hirsch, The Book by e.e. cummings |
| John Hollander, The Poet by Thomas Hart Benton |
| John Irving, Dormitory by Eloise H. Wilson |
| Ian Jack, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Denis Johnson, Denis the Pirate |
| Howard Junker, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Edith Kurzweil, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Don Lee, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Philip Levine, Berm |
| Gordan Lish, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Christopher Logue, In a Library by John McDonald Kane |
| David Lynn, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Norman Mailer, A Riff on Hemingway |
| Ben Marcus, Mexico City by Helen Levitt |
| J. D. McClatchy, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Ian McEwan, Mary's Arrival |
| Askold Melnyczuk, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Susan Minot, Bookworm by Saul Rabino |
| Rick Moody, Veiling and Transvestism |
| Bradford Morrow, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Edna O'Brien, La Lecture interrompue by Jean-Emile Labourer |
| Cynthia Ozick, A Rebuttal |
| Grace Paley, A Piece of a Beginning |
| Robert Pinksy, The Old Apartment by Peter Ilsted |
| Richard Powers, John Barth: An Introduction |
| Reynolds Price, Beatrice and Matthew in the Studio by Katherine Doyle |
| Francine Prose, The Annunciation by Benton Spruance |
| Ned Rorem, From a Diary: 2002-2003 |
| Philip Roth, An Acceptance |
| David Ryam, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| James Salter, Spanische Portierstran by Bill Brandt |
| Joanna Scott, Tourmaline |
| Jim Shepard, Night Rider |
| Charles Simic, Reading in Bed by Bascove |
| Willard Spiegelman, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Rob Spillman, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Vincent Standley, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Max Steele, Richard Wright: The Visible Man |
| John Updike, Pluie, Pluie, Allez-Vous-En |
| Helen Vendler, Glenway Wescott by Paul Cadmus |
| Kurt Vonnegut, Boy Reading by Will Eisner |
| Richard Wilbur, I'll Never Forget You As Long As I Live |
| Christian Wiman, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question |
| Jeanette Winterson, Nude Reading by Roy Lichtenstein |
| Charles Wright, Jacqueline Lisant by Pablo Picasso |
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| POETRY |
| Ansie Baird, Genealogy |
| Sophie Cabot Black, Two Poems |
| George Bradley, The Future of the Past |
| Michael Burns, Two Poems |
| Tom Disch, Two Poems |
| Annmarie Drury, Clay Plate |
| Irving Feldman, Two Poems |
| Gabriel Fried, Two Poems |
| Sarah Getty, Two Poems |
| Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Phenomenology in Blue |
| Joshua Green, Two Poems |
| Anthony Elliot Hawley, To Be in North Dakota Waiting |
| Rick Hilles, Poem Buried in a Line by Paul Éluard |
| Victor Hugo, Two Poems |
| Quinn Latimer, Two Poems |
| David Lehman, Two Poems |
| Rika Lesser, The Girls |
| Timothy Liu, Two Poems |
| Jason Marak, Untitled |
| Joyce Carol Oates, Harvesting Skin |
| Kathleen Peirce, Two Poems |
| Robert Phillips, Two Poems |
| Sarah Plimpton, A Single Poem |
| Katha Pollitt, Two Poems |
| Tony Sanders, Sunday Baroque |
| Brenda Shaughnessy, Embarrassment |
| Julie Sheehan, Brown-headed Cowbirds |
| Baron Wormser, Wisdom |
| Stephen Yenser, Across the Bar |
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| ART |
| Gerard Malanga, Snapshot Portraits |
| Saul Steinberg, Livres d'Or |
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