What Happens There
JOHN D'AGATA
A chronicle of suicide, longing, silence, and what's not announced by the epic signage of Las Vegas.
Speak, Memorates
ROBERT ITO
Were the ghosts and demons described in a Japanese folklore classic real? And why is nearly everyone in the stories so very mean?
Toward a Theory of Surprise
CHRIS BACHELDER
In reading, we perform the nearly oxymoronic feat of seeking surprise.
from "Hide and Seek": three new poems
DAN CHIASSON
Fridays at Enrico's
SARAH WEINMAN
Don Carpenter, author of one of the best prison novels of all time, and a superlative Hollywood novel, is finally back in the spotlight.
Second Person: a new poem
RAE ARMANTROUT
Catharsis in Bebop
JOHN DOMINI
How does the innovative fiction of Gilbert Sorrentino experiment with form and still keep readers' passions engaged?
Sedaratives
LIAM LYNCH
Real Life Rock Top Ten
GREIL MARCUS
One-Page Book Reviews
VARIOUS
Justin Taylor on Momus, Megan Doll on Javier Marías, Meehan Crist on Lynn Sukenick, and David Gorin on Kiki Petrosino.
"Comics"
edited by ALVIN BUENAVENTURA
Schema: Color Sayings from Around the Globe
JUDE STEWART
Musin's and Thinkin's: a monthly column
JACK PENDARVIS
Aleksandar Hemon
in conversation with COLUM MCCANN
Two brilliant novelists (one Bosnian, the other Irish) discuss the communities (real and imagined) that drive their work.
Francis Ford Coppola
in conversation with RUTH REICHL
Coppola tells Reichl about the place of food in his life, his films, his family, and what he cooked the night before last.
Alex Whybrow
interviewed by ANDREW SIMMONS
The ways in which the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson complement the career of a professional wrestler.
Eileen Luhr
micro-interviewed by NICK POPPY
How Christian rock colonized (and was colonized by) secular culture.
