Survival of the fittest / Nicholson Baker
Trucking through the AIDS belt / Ted Conover
Does Homer have legs? / David Denby
Tracks and ties / Andrew Dubus III
Out of one's tree / Stanley Elkin
Skunk dream / Louise Erdrich
The frankest interview yet / Ian Frzier
The last shot / Darcy Frey
Death in Venice / Adam Gopnik
Cordelia's dilemma / Stephen Jay Gould
Can an ape tell a joke? / Vicki Hearne
Alien Soil / Jamaica Kincaid
Escape from Moscow / Mark Kramer
The turn / William Langewiesche
Ivy day in the empty room / James A. McPherson
Rushdie in the Louvre / Cynthia Ozick
Striptease / Lauren Slater
Chatwin revisited / Paul Theroux
The disposable rocket / John Updike.