COLUMNS
Meta Morph: Brian Evenson on John Barth’s literary legacy
First Novels by Darcy Cosper
Fiction Forecast by Kera Bolonik
Interview: Jim Crace talks with David L. Ulin
Coffee Table: Barry Schwabsky and Andy Grundberg on art and photo monographs
Infernal Return: Lee Smith on the Dante revival
Ammiel Alcalay on Charles Olson’s Selected Letters, edited by Ralph Maud
Lucinda Rosenfeld on Eva Moves the Furniture, by Margot Livesey
John Yau on Dark Back of Time, by Javier Marías
Alexandra Ringe on The Subject Steve, by Sam Lipsyte
Sally Eckhoff on Everything You Need, by A.L. Kennedy
Joshua Clover on To Repel Ghosts, by Kevin Young
Lynn Crawford on The Complexities of Intimacy, by Mary Caponegro
Adam Kirsch on Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald
Vitaly Chernetsky on 4 by Pelevin, by Victor Pelevin
Robert Polito on The Gourmet Club, by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki
Benjamin Anastas on The Devil’s Larder, by Jim Crace
Gary Indiana on Bernhard’s life and work
Excerpts from the novels
A Reader’s Guide: Bernhard’s novels at a glance, by Thomas D’Adamo
Testimonials: Rick Moody, Sven Birkerts, Geoff Dyer, Lynne Tillman, and others pay tribute to Bernhard
Chronology: a biography in brief
David Grubbs on The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography, by A.J.A. Symons, introduction by A.S. Byatt
Minna Proctor on Where the Stress Falls: Essays, by Susan Sontag
Lisa Levy on Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Nancy Milford
Dani Shapiro on The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative, by Vivian Gornick
Damon Krukowski on Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology, edited by Mary Ann Caws
Harry Cooper on Philip Guston’s “Poor Richard,” by Debra Bricker Balken
Luc Sante on Where Dead Voices Gather, by Nick Tosches
William Monahan on The Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Burton, introduction by William H. Gass