Alfred Nobel and His Prizes:    James Campbell
   The troubled history of literature's "gold standard."
Patricia Highsmith: The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith   James Sallis
Robert Clark: Love Among the Ruins  Tom Bissell

Interview

Poetry

Fourth Annual Contest Winner: D. A. Powell    Carl Phillips
Poet's Sampler: Robert Fitterman  introduced by Bruce Andrews
Right down to the melody of rain...    Karen Zusman
Lust for Life    James Tate
Sonnet Macaronic  Jennifer Scappettone
Seaweeds    Laurie Sheck
Towards Lethargy: A Solo for One Vice   Brett Fletcher Lauer
The Attention Lesson   P. F. Potvin
Zombie Sunday    Joshua Bell
A Quick One Before I Go (November 14)   David Lehman

Fiction

Uncle Jake and the Caped Crusaders   Mary Hanna

Reviews

Poetry
Frederick Seidel: The Cosmos Poems and Life on Earth   Calvin Bedient
Allen Grossman: How to Do Things with Things   James Longenbach
Anne Carson: The Beauty of the Husband
Alice Fulton: Felt
Claudia Rankine: Plot    Barbara Fischer

Prose
Louis Menand: The Metaphysical Club   John H. Summers

Microreviews