Volume XI, Number 1

Fiction

Caroline Bleeke, “All Blackness and Collapse”

On Chang-Rae Lee, The Surrendered

Jennifer Kurdyula, To Eat One’s Words

On Muriel Barbery, Gourmet Rhapsody

Caroline Bleeke, Peripheral Vision

On Per Petterson, I Curse The River of Time

Non-Fiction

Andrew Chen, The Architect’s Ruins

On Edward Hollis, The Secret Lives of Buildings

Anna Polonyi, “Unbutton Your Mind as Often as Your Fly”

On The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection

Christine An, Happiness for All: Is It Worth It?

On Derek Bok, The Politics of Happiness

Emily Chertoff, Anxious About Influence

On Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Poetry

Gabriel Roberts, Private Passions

On Frederick Seidel, Poems: 1959-2009

Adam Palay, A Narrow Black Room

On Henri Cole, Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007

Gabriel Roberts, Hostile Verse

On Charles Bernstein, All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems

Features

David Wallace, J. D. Salinger: A Promise of Happiness

Julian K. Arni, “Man is a Large Pheasant in the World”: Herta Müller’s Nobel Prize

David Rice, A Conversation with John Banville