The Review of Contemporary Fiction

William H. Gass / Manuel Puig
* Arthur M. Saltzman, "Where Words Dwell Adored: An Introduction to William Gass" * Arthur M. Saltzman, "Language and Conscience: An Interview with William Gass" * William H. Gass, "Simplicities" * William H. Gass, "Sweets" * Arthur M. Saltzman, "William H. Gass: Selected Correspondence" * Philip Stevick, "William Gass and the Real World" * Lucy Wilson, "Alternatives to Transcendence in William Gass's Short Fiction" * Kevin J. H. Dettmar, "'yung and easily freudened': William Gass's The Pedersen Kid'" * Melanie Eckford-Prossor, "Layered Apparitions: Philosophy and 'The Pedersen Kid'" * Richard J. Schneider, "Rejecting the Stone: William Gass and Emersonian Transcendence" * Reginald Dyck, "William Gass: A 'Purified Modernist' in a Postmodern World" * Ilan Stavans, "Kafka, Cortazar, Gass" * Heide Ziegler, "On Translating 'The Sunday Drive'" * Arthur M. Saltzman, "A William H. Gass Checklist"

* Ilan Stavans, "Good-Bye to M. P." * Jorgelina Corbatta, "Brief Encounter: An Interview with Manuel Puig" * Manuel Puig, "Vivaldi: A Screenplay" * Guillermo Cabrera Infante, "In a Pampas of Dreams" * Juan Goytisolo, "On Being Morally Correct" * Suzanne Jill Levine, "Manuel Puig Exits Laughing" * Pamela Bacarisse, "Manuel Puig and the Uses of Culture" * Shari A. Zimmerman, "Manuel Puig and the Critique of Authority" * Lucille Kerr, "In the Presence of the Author" * Roberto Echavarren, "Manuel Puig: Contra Borges" * Brian Conniff, "The Learned Executioner and the Chick from Suburbia: Kiss of the Spider Woman as Prison Literature" * Jorgelina Corbatta, "A Glimpse of the Fantastic in Puig" * Steven DuPouy, "Brazilian Nights, Argentine Voices: Tropical Night Falling" * Elias Miguel Munoz, "Show and Tell: Notes on Puig's Theater" * Books by Manuel Puig
* Paul West, "Deep-Sixed into the Atlantic"
* Letters * Books Received * Annual Index