COLUMNS
A Riddle: Mark Z. Danielewski on the most wondrous book of all
The Wrong Idea: Curtis White on the death of literature
Fiction Forecast by Jonathan Bing
Interview: William T. Vollmann talks with Dennis Cooper
First Novels by Paul West
Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs
Will to Fail: Geoff Dyer on Schadenfreude
Frances Stark on In His Own Write, by John Lennon and Grapefruit, by Yoko Ono
Benjamin Weissman on How the Dead Live, by Will Self
Bruce Hainley on Zombie00, by Brad Gooch and I Cry Like a Baby, by Kevin Killian
Travis Jeppeson on I Like Being Killed, by Tibor Fischer
Dodie Bellamy on The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson
Robert Glück on The Garden of Secrets, by Juan Goytisolo
Amy Gerstler on Alfred and Guinevere, by James Schuyler
Matthew Stadler on Maiden Voyage, by Denton Welch
Casey McKinney on The Elementary Particles, by Michel Houellebecq
Michael Silverblatt on Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, by Chris Ware; David Boring, by Daniel Clowes; and Little Lit, edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly
Mark Dery on Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings, edited by Michael Bonesteel
Mark Dery on The Babies, by Polly Borland, introduction by Susan Sontag
Erik Davis on Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television, Jeffery Sconce
Elissa Schappell on The Pure and the Impure, by Colette
Damon Krukowski on Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos, by Harry Partch, edited by Thomas McGeary
Paul Lukas on The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol along the American Highway, by Karal Ann Marling
Arthur C. Danto on The Waste Books, by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Rosalind Krauss on Tigersprung: Fashion and Modernity, by Ulrich Lehmann
Ronald Jones on Communazis: FBI Surveillance of German Emigré Writers, by Alexander Stephan
Howard Hampton on The Shadow and Its Shadow: Surrealist Writings on the Cinema, edited by Paul Hammond
Minna Proctor on Quarrel & Quandary, by Cynthia Ozick
Stephen Merritt on Liberace: An American Boy, by Darden Asbury Pyron
Dave Hickey on Chromophobia, by David Batchelor