The follies of writer worship / Julian Barnes
Not-knowing / Donald Barthelme
Flight from Byzantium / Joseph Brodsky
Heatherdown : a late imperialist memoir / Alexander Cockburn
The passing of jazz's old guard : remembering Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Stitt / Gerald Early
Of accidental judgments and casual slaughters / Kai Erikson
When the cockroach stood by the mickle wood / Robert Fitzgerald
China still lifes / William Gass
Nasty little facts / Stephen Jay Gould
Dressed to thrill / Anne Hollander
Morality and foreign policy / George F. Kennan
On boxing / Joyce Carol Oates
The first day of school : Washington Square, 1946 / Cynthia Ozick
The body of Bach / Edward Rothstein
Visions of the Pacific / Frederick Turner
On Italo Calvino / Gore Vidal