Issue 1 | Fall 2005
Features
Interview: Hardboiled & Hard Luck translator Michael Emmerich
The Art Behind Putting Together an Issue of a Literary Journal
Reviews
Devil Talk
The Breaking Point
Hardboiled & Hard Luck
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Contributors
Features
Creative Oppositions: The Poetry of Frank Bidart
Interview: Edward Falco
Reading Alberto Moravia's Boredom
Reviews
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
Gemma Bovery
Big Lonesome: Stories
Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
Contributors
Features
Breaking the Code
Reconsidering Thomas Bernhard's Correction
Reviews
The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery
Bouvard and Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert
Time Was Soft There by Jeremy Mercer
Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman
Insect Dreams by Marc Estrin
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders
Contributors
Features
Some of the Best Books Since 1990
Reviews
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo
Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio
The Din in the Head by Cynthia Ozick
In Night's City by Dorothy Nelson
Music From Big Pink by John Niven
The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler-Lewis
Realm of the Dead by Uchida Hyakken
Contributors
Features
Murakami Roundtable
Essays
Reviews of Blind Woman, Sleeping Willow
A Short Guide to Murakami's Short Fiction
The Murakam Dictionary
In Memory of Gilbert Sorrentino
The Zak Smith Interview
How Can We Read in an Age of Images?
Reviews
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
The Obstacles by Eloy Urroz
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Visigoth by Gary Amdahl
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner
Tomorrow They Will Kiss by Eduardo Santiago
Contributors
Features
Basking in Hell: Returning to The Tunnel
New Clichés: How Mulligan Stew Uses Old Lines to Slam Pretentious Authors
World Cinema: The Independent Spirit of the Toronto International Film Festival
The Value of Religious Diversity
Howdy Neighbor
What is Appropriate?
A Day At Vollmann's Studio
A Gallery of Vollmann's Art
Reviews
Whose Freedom? by George Lakoff
Remember Me by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
Red the Fiend by Gilbert Sorrentino
Triangle by Katharine Weber
Suspension by Robert Westfield
Contributors
Features
No Funny Business
Thrice Told Tales: How Stories Become Reality
in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow
Déją Vu:
On Rereading Catch-22
Cautionary Tales
Reviews
Amulet by Roberto Bolaño
The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
Poor People by William T. Vollmann
The Shape of Things to Come by Greil Marcus
The Mystery of the Sardine by Stefan Themerson
Of Song and Water by Joseph Coulson
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore
All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness by Stephen Levy
Contributors
Features
How to Feed the Monster
Roberto Bolaño: A naive introduction to the geometry of his fictions
Roberto Bolaño's Orphans
The Chris Andrews Interview
The Natasha Wimmer Interview
The C. M. Mayo Interview
Reviews
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Virgin of Flames by Chris Abani
The Last Novel by David Markson
The Assistant by Robert Walser
Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich
Contributors
Features
The One that Got Away
Cogito, Ergo Doom
What Are Prisons For?
A Pocketful of Change
Reviews
Throw Like a Girl by Jean Thompson
Vain Art of the Fugue by Dumitru Tsepeneag
Remainder by Tom McCarthy
new poems by Tadeusz Rozewicz
Goldberg: Variations by Gabriel Josipovici
Right Livelihoods by Rick Moody
So Many Ways to Begin by Jon McGregor
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Before I Wake by Robert Wiersema
Contributors
Hispanic Literature Special
The Fruits of Parasitism
The Literary Alchemy of César Aira
My Own Private Mexico
Story, History, or Historia?
Bond, In Mexico
Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortazar
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Features
Life is Freedom: The Art of Vasily Grossman
Interviews
The Charles D'Ambrosio Interview
The Pascale Ferran Interview
Reviews
Vibrator by Mari Akasaka
The Maias by Jose Maria Eça de Queirós
God Is Dead by Ron Currie, Jr.
The Meat and Spirit Plan by Selah Saterstrom
Partial List of People to Bleach by Gary Lutz
Sons and Other Flammable Objects by Porochista Khakpour
How to Read a Novel by John Sutherland
The Body Has a Mind of Its Own by Sandra and Matthew Blakeslee
Everything is Miscelleanous by David Weinberger
Features
Over and Under
Where the Readers Are
France's Foremost Absurdist
The Sound of Myself
Denis Johnson's Varieties of Religious Experience
Reviews
The Power of Flies by Lydie Salvayre
It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature by Diane Williams
Guantanamo by Dorothea Dieckmann
Dirt for Art's Sake by Elisabeth Ladenson
Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann
Best American Magazine Writing 2007
Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
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