The Review of Contemporary Fiction
William H. Gass
- Susan Stewart, "The Bowerbirds"
- Robert Coover, "On Mrs. Willie Masters"
- Bradford Morrow, "A Girandole for Mr. Gass"
- Mary Caponegro "Lookin' with Gass"
- Rikki Ducornet "A Dream"
- Sally Ball "About Reading"
- Heide Ziegler "Three Encounters with Germany: Goethe, Holderlin, Rilke"
- Michael Eastman "Photographs"
- Joanna Scott "Homage to Bill Gass"
- John Barth "As Sinuous and Tough as Ivy"
- Ingo Schulze "Toast or Corn? Notes I made for This Speech and Then Discarded"
- Heather McHugh "To His Health"
- Richard Watson "Second Is Last"
- Diane Ackerman "One Beautiful Mind"
- Lorin Cuoco "Page 399"
- Ethan Shaskan Bumas "William H. Gass Meets the -ba particle"
- Paul West "At-Swim among the Noble Gasses"
- Joan Elkin "Portrait"
- Walter Abish "Even Vienna could not forever endure this struggle"
- Michael Silverblatt "Review Essays: The Tunnel: A Small Apartment in Hell"
- Books Received
- Annual Index
BOOK REVIEWS
- The Moon in Its Flight, by Gilbert Sorrentino
- The Boat in the Evening, by Tarjei Vesaas
- Iceland's Bell, by Halldór Laxness, translated by Philip Roughton
- Antipodes, by Ignacio Padilla, translated by Alastair Reid
- Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, by Gao Xingjian, translated by Mabel Lee
- Celestial Harmonies, by Péter Esterházy, translated by Judith Sollosy
- To Write on Tamara?, by Marcel Bénabou, translated by Steven Rendall
- Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
- Her Name Was Lola, by Russell Hoban
- How to Quiet a Vampire, by Borislav Pekic, translated by Stephen M. Dickey and Bogdan Rakic
- Blackbox: A Novel in 840 Chapters, by Nick Walker
- Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China, by Patricia Laurence