245 pp. + ads. Essays by John Barth (Some Notes on Poe's Pym); Rick Bass; Roy Blount; Annie Dillard (Luke); Denis Donoghue; Michael Dorris; Gerald Early; Monroe Engel (Henry Green: Eros and Persistence); Alma Guillermoprieto; Claudio Magris; Peter Matthiessen (Congo Basin: The Search for the Forest Elephant); Harold Norse; Josip Novakovich; Jean Redwood (Chekhov and Food; Robert Shacochis; Josef Skvorecky (How I Learned German and Later English); Gary Snyder; and William Trevor.