Adams, Alice, (1926- )
--Roses, Rhododendron, 1976. Best of the Century
--Tide Pools, December 16, 1985. *
--The Last Lovely City, March 13, 1991. *
Adrian, Chris,
--The Glass House, January 10, 2000.
Aksyonov, Vassily,
--Around Dupont, November 20, 1995.
Alexie, Sherman,
--The Toughest Indian in the World, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
--Indian Country, March 13, 2000.
Allan, Ted,
--Big Boys Shouldn't Cry, April 17, 1948.
Allen, Woody,
--No Kaddish for Weinstein, 1975.
--Fine Times: An Oral Memoir, 1975.
--Examining Psychic Phenomena, 1975.
--A Guide to Some of the Lesser Ballets, 1975.
--The Early Essays, 1975.
--Selections from the Allen Notebooks, 1975.
--Lovborg's Women Considered, 1975.
--The Whore of Mensa, 1975.
--Attention Geniuses: Cash Only, February 21 & February 28, 2000.
Alvarez, A.,
--Mermaid, July 28, 1997. (poem)
Amichai, Yehuda,
--My Children Grew, September 27, 1999. (poem)
Amis, Martin,
--The Janitor on Mars, October 26-November 2, 1998. **
Ammons, A. R.,
--Shot Glass, February 15, 1999. (poem)
--Embedded Storms, May 10, 1999. (poem)
Anderson, Jon Lee,
--The Power of García Márquez, September 27, 1999. (article)
Anderson, Kurt,
--My People, Your People, April 26 & May 3, 1999.
Angell, Roger,
--Greetings, Friends! December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. (humorous poem)
Antrim, Donald,
--An Actor Prepares, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
--The Pancake Supper, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000.
Arbolino, Jack,
--The Outsiders, January 10, 1948.
Ash, Timothy Garton,
--The Real le Carré, March 15, 1999. (article on John le Carré)
Ashbery, John,
--They Don't Just Go Away, Either, April 5, 1999. (poem)
--Life Is a Dream, September 20, 1999. (poem)
Astor, Brooke,
--Maine, July 22, 1996. * (poem)
Baker, Nicholson,
--Subsoil, June 27-July 4, 1994.
Baldwin, James,
--Letter from a Region of My Mind, November 17, 1962.
--Letter from a Region of My Mind, February 21 & February 28, 2000. (reprint)
Ball, Angela,
--The Last Toast (For Anna Akhmatova), September 15, 1997. (poem)
Balliett, Whitney,
--Stan Getz, April 21, 1997. * (article)
Barnes, Julian,
--Hygiene, September 6, 1999.
Barnet, Miguel,
--Miosvatis, January 26, 1998.
Barthelme, Donald,
--Concerning the Bodyguard, 1974.
--Letters to the Editore, 1974.
--Chablis,
--On the Deck,
--Opening,
--Sindbad,
--Jaws,
--Bluebeard,
--Construction,
--January,
--Basil from Her Garden, October 21, 1985. * Best American Short Stories 1986
--Visitors,
--Financially, the paper ...,
--Affection,
--Lightning,
--Captain Blood,
--Conversations with Goethe,
--The Sea of Hesitation,
--When he came ...,
--The Mothball Fleet,
--Wrack,
--On our street ...,
--The Palace at Four A. M.,
--Overnight to Many Cities,
Bass, Rick,
--Elk, December 1, 1997.
Bass, Thomas A.,
--Black Box, April 26 & May 3, 1999. (article about Norman Packard and Doyne Farmer)
Baumbach, Noah,
--Keith Richards' Desert-Island Disks, November 29, 1999. (short short)
--Van Gogh in AOL, March 27, 2000. (short short)
Baumel, Judith,
--Jupiter Evening Star, March 11, 1996. (poem)
Beattie, Ann,
--Janus, 1986. * Best American Short Stories 1986
Bellow, Saul,
--A Father-To-Be, 1955.
--Mosby's Memoirs, 1968.
--Ravelstein, November 1, 1999.
Bender, Karen E.,
--The Fourth Prussian Dynasty, September 13, 1999.
Bernard, April,
--Ktaadn, September, 8, 1997. (poem)
--Masabeesec, September, 8, 1997. (poem)
--Sonnet in E, September, 8, 1997. (poem)
--What Would Happen Then, February 14, 2000. (poem)
Bidart, Frank,
--Little Fugue, March 27, 2000. * (poem)
Bierds, Linda,
--The Three Trees, December 1, 1997. (poem)
Bishop, Elizabeth,
--Florida Deserta, February 21 & February 28, 2000. (poem)
--The Street by the Cemetery, February 21 & February 28, 2000. (poem)
--Vague Poem, February 21 & February 28, 2000. (poem)
Bliss, Harry,
--Treats of the Trade, November 1, 1999. (cover art)
Bloch, Chana,
--Mrs. Dumpty, August 24 & 31, 1998. (poem)
Blount, Roy, Jr.,
--The Media Beat Goes On, January 10, 2000. (short short)
Boland, Eavan,
--The Blossom, July 6, 1998. (poem)
Borges, Jorge Luis, (1899-1986)
--Utopia of a Tired Man, 1975. (poem)
--The Web, June, 1986. (poem)
--To Whoever Is Reading Me, June 24 & July 1, 1996. (poem)
--Shakespeare's Memory, April 13, 1998.
--Waking Up, March 22, 1999. (poem) (translated by Alastair Reid)
--Things, March 22, 1999. (poem) (translated by Stephen Kessler)
--That Man, March 22, 1999. (poem) (translated by Alan S. Trueblood)
Borowitz, Andy,
--The Inaugural Address of President George W. Bush, November 1, 1999. (short short)
Boyd, William,
--Visions Fugitives, February, 17, 1997.
--Adult Video, May 31, 1999.
Boyle, Kay,
--Evening at Home, October 9, 1948.
Boyle, T. Coraghessan,
--Killing Babies, December 2, 1996.
--Mexico, October 19, 1998.
--Captured by Indians, September 27, 1999.
--The Love of My Life, March 6, 2000.
Bradley, Alice, (Alice Hastings Bradley Sheldon)
--The Lucky Ones, 1946.
Bradley, George,
--Millrace, April 26 & May 3, 1999. (poem)
Bradbury, Ray,
--I See You Never, November 8, 1947.
Breytenbach, Breyten,
--Une Vie Sans Ailleurs, July 19, 1999. (poem)
Brodkey, Harold,
--The Abundant Dreamer, November 23, 1963.
--On the Waves, September 4, 1965.
--Bookkeeping, April 27, 1968.
--Hofstedt and Jean - and Others, January 25, 1969.
--The Shooting Range, September 13, 1969.
--A Story in an Almost Classical Mode, September 17, 1973. **
--Largely an Oral History of My Mother, April 26, 1976.
--Ceil, September 9, 1983.
--S. L., September 9, 1985.
--The Nurse's Music, August 22, 1988.
Brodsky, Joseph,
--25. XII. 1993, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000. * (poem)
Bruck, Julie,
--Kate's Dress, September 20, 1999. (poem)
Buck, Charlie,
--Still-Life with Particle Board, March 15, 1999.
Buckley, Christopher,
--Homework: A Parent's Guide, January 24, 2000. (short short)
Burke, Marianne,
--Mrs. M.'s Doll House, November 29, 1999. (poem)
Cammuso, Frank, and Hart Seely,
--Fantasy League, April 3, 2000. (short short)
Campbell, Marie Baine,
--Life after Death, April 26 & May 3, 1999. (poem)
Canin, Ethan,
--Vins Fins, June 21 & June 28, 1999. (excerpt)
--Vins Fins, August 2, 1999.
Carson, Anne,
--And Kneeling at the Edge of the Transparent Sea, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. (poem)
Carver, Raymond,
--Where I'm Calling From, 1983. *
--Chef's House, 1983.
--Errand, June 1, 1987. ** O'Henry Award
--Boxes, 1988.
--Whoever Was Using This Bed, 1988.
--Elephant, 1988.
--Blackbird Pie, 1988.
Casey, John,
--Avid, April 18, 1988. *
Cassidy, John,
--Ink, May 31, 1999. (Principia Mathematica is #23 on the list of greatest nonfiction books of the century)
Chabon, Michael, (1963- )
--The Hofzinser Club, June 21 & June 28, 1999. (excerpt)
--The Hofzinser Club, July 19, 1999.
Cheever, John,
--O City of Broken Dreams, January 24, 1948.
--Goodbye, My Brother, August 25, 1951.
--Montraldo, 1973.
--The Chimera, 1973.
--Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin, 1973.
--Percy, 1973.
--Goodbye, My Brother, February 21 & February 28, 2000. (reprint of excerpt)
Chekhov, Anton,
--On Mortality: A Carnival Tale, 1995.
Christopher, Nicholas,
--Midsummer, July 22, 1996. (poem)
--The Séance, Paris, 1972, September 13, 1999. (poem)
Clapp, Susannah,
--The Simple Art of Murder: Patricia Highsmith, December 20, 1999. * (article)
Coen, Ethan,
--The Boys, July 6, 1998.
--The Buck Stops Here, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. * (short short)
Cole, Henri,
--Chiffon Morning, November 9, 1998. (poem)
Collier, John,
--Back for Christmas, 1939.
--De Mortuis..., 1942.
Conover, Ted,
--Guarding Sing Sing, April 3, 2000. (article)
Cunningham, Michael,
--White Angel, 1989. * (excerpt from A Home at the End of the World)
--A Room at the Normandy, September 21, 1998.
Dahl, Roald,
--The Champion of the World,
--Dip in the Pool,
--Edward the Conqueror, 1953. (Kiss, Kiss, 1953.)
--The Landlady,
--Skin,
--Taste,
--The Way Up to Heaven,
Danticat, Edwidge,
--The Book of the Dead, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
Deane, Seamus,
--The Famous Seamus, March 20, 2000. (article about Seamus Heaney)
DeLillo, Don,
--The Black-and-White Ball, December, 23 & 30, 1996.
Díaz, Junot,
--OtraVida, OtraVez, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
--Nilda, October 4, 1999.
Dickinson, Charles,
--Child in the Leaves, March 7, 1988. *
Didion, Joan,
--Last Words, November 9, 1998. (article on Ernest Hemingway)
Dobyns, Stephen,
--The Birth of Angels, June 21 & June 28, 1999. (poem)
--Jonah's Flight to Tarshish, September 27, 1999. (poem)
Doctorow, E. L.,
--Heist, April 21, 1997.
Donaghy, Michael,
--The Brother, July 19, 1999. (poem)
--Not Knowing the Words, September 6, 1999. (poem)
Dorph, Doug,
--Second Helping, July 12, 1999. * (poem)
Doyle, Larry,
--Me v. Big Mike, June 14, 1999. (short short)
Dufault, Peter Kane,
--The Expanding Universe: Two Views, July 10, 1995. (poem)
--More Snow Falling, April 12, 1999. (poem)
Dunn, Stephen,
--Empathy, April 10, 2000. * (poem)
Dybek, Stuart,
--Paper Lantern, November 27, 1995.
Earley, Tony,
--The Wide Sea, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
Edmunds, Martin,
--Petra, August 9, 1999. (poem)
Ellison, Ralph,
--Mister Movie-Man, April 12, 1999. (novel excerpt)
Englander, Nathan,
--The Last One Way, January 18, 1999.
--Peep Show, June 21 & June 28, 1999. (excerpt)
--Peep Show, July 26, 1999.
Enright, Anne,
--Taking Pictures, March 27, 2000.
Erdrich, Louise,
--Naked Woman Playing Chopin, July 27, 1998.
--Le Mooz, January 24, 2000.
Erofeyev, Victor,
--The Good Stalin, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. (short short)
Eugenides, Jeffrey,
--The Burning of Smyrna, January 5, 1998.
--The Oracular Vulva, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
Everwine, Peter,
--In the Last Days, July 26, 1999. (poem)
Fanning, Roger,
--Boys Build Forts, October 18 - October 25, 1999. (poem)
Feldman, Irving,
--Les Grandes Passions Manquées, February 1, 1999. (poem)
Fisher, M. F. K.,
--Gastronomy Recalled: Once a Tramp, Always ..., September 7, 1968.
--Gastronomy Recalled, February 21 & February 28, 2000. (reprint)
Fleischman, Paul,
--SWAT Radio, November 24, 1997. (short short)
Ford, Richard, (1944- )
--Privacy, July 22, 1996. (short short)
--Good Raymond, October 5, 1998. (article about Raymond Carver)
--Crèche, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999.
--Quality Time, January 31, 2000.
Franzen, Jonathan,
--The Failure, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
Friedman, Bruce Jay,
--Wonderful Golden Rule Days,
--Let's Hear It for Beautiful Guy,
Friend, Tad,
--Matt Groening's "Futurama," October 26-November 2, 1998. (article)
--David Lynch: Creative Differences, September 6, 1999. (article)
Gaitskill, Mary,
--A Dream of Men, November 23, 1998.
Galassi, Jonathan,
--The Necklace, February 14, 2000. * (poem)
Gallant, Mavis,
--The Remission, 1980. *
--Speck's Idea, 1980. *
--Dédé, 1986. *
--The Concert Party, 1989. *
García Márquez, Gabriel, (1928- )
--Bon Voyage, Mr. President, 1993.
--Maria dos Prazeres, 1993.
--Meeting in August, December 6, 1999.
Ginsberg, Allen,
--Death & Fame, April 21, 1997. (poem)
Glück, Louise,
--Vita Nova, July 6, 1998. (poem)
--The Queen of Carthage, November 23, 1998. (poem)
--Nest, February 8, 1999. (poem)
--Screened Porch, August 23 & August 30, 1999. (poem)
--Copper Beech, November 1, 1999. (poem)
--Eros, February 21 & February 28, 2000. (poem)
Goldman, Francisco,
--Murder Comes for the Bishop, March 15, 1999. (article)
Goodman, Allegra,
--The Local Production of Cinderella, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
Goodrich, Carter,
--Big Baby, October 18 - October 25, 1999. (cover art)
Gordimer, Nadine
--Loot, March 22, 1999. (short short)
--The Diamond Mine, May 10, 1999.
Gourevitch, Philip,
--A Cold Case, February 14, 2000. * (article)
Grass, Günter,
--Class Reunion, October 11, 1999.
Greenbaum, Jessica,
--We Walked Out of the Hospital, April 12, 1999. (poem)
Greger, Debora,
--Poetry and Sleep, March 13, 2000. (poem)
Grennan, Eamon,
--Couple on Park Bench, June 22 & 29, 1998. (poem)
--Moment, September 14, 1998. (poem)
--Encounter, April 12, 1999. (poem)
--Desire, January 10, 2000. * (poem)
--Bonnard's Reflection, April 3, 2000. (poem)
Groopman, Jerome,
--Medicine on Mars, February 14, 2000. ** (article)
--The Doubting Disease, April 10, 2000. ** (article)
Gurganus, Allan,
--Toward a More Precise Identification of the Newer Angels, September 4, 1995.
--He's at the Office, February 15, 1999.
Gustafsson, Lars,
--Ballad of the Paths in Västmanland, February 7, 2000. (poem)
Hall, Donald,
--A Day on Ragged, 1961. * Best American Short Stories 1962
--Words from the Sarcophagus, September 13, 1999. (poem)
--The Perfect Life, January 31, 2000. ** (poem)
Halliday, Mark,
--Quartier, April 26 & May 3, 1999.
Halpern, Daniel,
--Desperados, February 1, 1999. (poem)
Hamill, Pete,
--Ed McBain: The Poet of Pulp, January 10, 2000. (article)
Hardwick, Elizabeth,
--The Faithful, 1980. *
Harris, Chris,
--You Fill Out My Census, April 10, 2000. (short short)
Hazzard, Shiley,
--The Place to Be, June 29, 1987. *
Heaney, Seamus,
--The Perch, January 18, 1999. (poem)
--A Hyperborean, January 18, 1999. (poem)
--The God of the Sea Greets Bran in the Land of the Waves, August 2, 1999. (poem)
--Night of '57, March 20, 2000. (poem)
--The Augean Stables, March 20, 2000. (poem)
Hecht, Anthony,
--Illumination, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. (poem)
--Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-Seven, March 27, 2000. * (poem)
Hecht, Julie,
--Over There, December 7 & 14, 1998.
Heller, Joseph,
--Joseph Heller, by David Remnick, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000. (obituary)
Hemingway, Ernest,
--Miss Mary's Sorrow, May 24, 1999.
Henderson, Robert,
--Into the Wind, 1980. *
Hoffman, Daniel,
--Devotion, August 3, 1998. (poem)
Hofmann, Michael,
--Last Walk, May 17, 1999. (poem)
Homes, A. M.,
--Raft in Water, Floating, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
Hornby, Nick,
--Reeling in the Years, March 27, 2000. (article about Steely Dan)
Hughes, Frieda,
--Laszlo, June 22 & 29, 1998. (poem)
--Romancing Ferret, September 7, 1998. (poem)
Jackson, Shirley,
--On the House, October 30, 1943.
--When Things Get Dark, December 30, 1944.
--Whistler's Grandmother, May 5, 1945.
--The Lottery, June 26, 1948. *** FHF
Jacobsen, Josephine,
--Distinctions, August 17, 1998. ** (poem)
--The Apprentice, September 6, 1999. (poem)
James, Clive,
--The Truthteller: George Orwell, January 18, 1999. (article)
Jen, Gish,
--Who's Irish? September 14, 1998.
Jones, Thom,
--Mouses, August 11, 1997.
--Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine, November 17, 1997.
Justice, Donald,
--There Is a Gold Light in Certain Old Paintings, November 24, 1997. (poem)
Kael, Pauline,
--Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gadgeteer, July 27, 1981. (The Current Cinema)
--Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gadgeteer, February 21 & February 28, 2000. (reprint)
Kaplan, James,
--The Laughing Game, February 7, 2000. (article about Jerry Lewis)
Kaufman, Wendi,
--Helen on Eighty-Sixth Street, November 24, 1997. *
Kesey, Ken,
--Otto the Bloody, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999.
King, Stephen, (1947- )
--Head Down, Spring, 1990. (article)
--The Man in the Black Suit, October 31, 1994.
--That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French, June 22 & 29, 1998.
--Leaf-Peepers, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. (short short)
Kinnell, Galway,
--Feathering, January 24, 2000. (poem)
Klam, Matthew,
--Issues I Dealt with in Therapy, June 21 & June 28, 1999. (excerpt)
--Issues I Dealt with in Therapy, July 12, 1999. (full story)
Kleinzahler, August,
--Before Dawn on Bluff Road, August 11, 1997. (poem)
Knight, Michael,
--Birdland, November 9, 1998.
Koch, Kenneth,
--To My Old Addresses, May 24, 1999. (poem)
--To Sleep, May 24, 1999. (poem)
--To My Fifties, March 13, 2000. (poem)
Korda, Michael,
--That's It, Baby, March 22, 1999. (article about Tennessee Williams)
Kumin, Maxine,
--On the Table, August 24 & 31, 1998. (poem)
Lahiri, Jhumpa,
--Sexy, December 28, 1998 & January 4, 1999.
--The Third and Final Continent, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
Lahr, John,
--The Demon-Lover, May 31, 1999. (profile of Ingmar Bergman)
Landesman, Peter,
--Starship Private Enterprise, October 26-November 2, 1998. (article)
Lane, Anthony,
--Evelyn Waugh: Waugh in Pieces, October 4, 1999. (book review)
Larsen, Deborah,
--Two Czech Scholars in Mud Time, July 26, 1999. (poem)
Laughlin, James,
--I Cannot Separate Her, November 24, 1997. (poem)
--Lost Brains, May 10, 1999. (poem)
Lavin, Mary,
--In the Middle of the Fields, 1961. * Best American Short Stories 1962
Lawson, Paul,
--Any Old Stone, May 17, 1999. * (poem)
Lee, Andrea,
--Brothers and Sisters Around the World, February 7, 2000.
Lee, Chang-Rae,
--The Volunteers, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
Le Guin, Ursula K.,
--The Professor's Houses, 1982.
--The Spoons in the Basement, 1982.
--Sur: A Summary Report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-10, 1982. *
--Half Past Four, 1987.
Leithauser, Brad,
--A Honeymoon Conception (1952), September 14, 1998. (poem)
Lennon, J. Robert,
--Flight, June 14, 1999.
Levin, Phillis,
--Face to Face, May 24, 1999. (poem)
--Soon, January 24, 2000. (poem)
Levine, Mark,
--QE 2, November 8, 1999. (poem)
Levine, Philip,
--The Mercy, August 17, 1998. (poem)
Leyner, Mark,
--Notes on Camp, June 22 & 29, 1998. (short short)
Lipsky, David,
--Three Thousand Dollars, 1985. * Best American Short Stories 1986
Logan, William,
--Dear DD, October 4, 1999. (poem)
Long, David,
--Blue Spruce, November 12, 1990. *
Long, Robert,
--Excellent Coffee Shop, March 15, 1999. (poem)
Longley, Michael,
--The Waterfall, June 14, 1999. * (poem)
--Somewhere in Transylvania, December 20, 1999. (poem)
Luchs, Kurt,
--Letter of Recommendation, March 22, 1999. (short short)
Lux, Thomas,
--Refrigerator, 1957, July 28, 1997. (poem)
MacInnes, Mairi,
--Hard Lives, January 11, 1999. (poem)
--In Hospital, December 6, 1999. (poem)
Mackenzie, Rachel,
--The Funeral of Sandra Cunningham, March 6, 1948.
Macklin, Elizabeth,
--Tree with Ornaments by My Mother, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. (poem)
--Remembering the Golden Age, July 12, 1999. (poem)
Mason, Bobby Ann,
--Bumblebees, March 9, 1987. *
Márquez, Gabriel García, (1928- )
--see García Márquez, Gabriel
Martin, Steve,
--Writing Is Easy! June 24 & July 1, 1996. (short short)
--A Public Apology, November 17, 1997. (short short)
--In Search of the Wily Filipino, July 6, 1998. (short short)
--The Sledgehammer: How It Works, July 27, 1998. (short short)
--The Hundred Greatest Books That I've Read, September 21, 1998. (short short)
--Studies in the New Casuality, October 26-November 2, 1998. * (short short)
--Does God Exist? December 7 & 14, 1998. (short short)
--Closure, February 15, 1999. (short short)
--Designer of Audio CD Packing Enters Hell, April 19, 1999. (short short)
--Talking Points, May 17, 1999. (short short)
--The Y3K Bug, July 19, 1999. * (short short)
--Disgruntled Former Lexicographer, October 11, 1999. (short short)
--President Warren, October 18 - October 25, 1999. (short short)
Mathews, Aidan,
--The Burnt Offering, November 23, 1998. * (poem)
Maxwell, William,
--A Game of Chess,
--What He Was Like,
--Bucket's Got a Hole in It, December 1, 1997. (poem)
--The Cloister, August 3, 1998. (poem)
--The Room Outside, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. (short short)
--Grape Bay (1941), June 7, 1999.
Mayhall, Jane,
--Token, January 5, 1998. (poem)
Mazzocco, Robert,
--Genesis, September 21, 1998. (poem)
--Postlude, October 11, 1999. * (poem)
McCall, Bruce,
--Easter Morning, April 5, 1999. ** (cover art)
--Lost Times Square, May 31, 1999. ** (cover art)
--Welcome to Hellhampton, September 6, 1999. ** (cover art)
--Miffed, November 8, 1999. (short short)
--Gifts of State, Going Fast, December 13, 1999. (short short)
--Who Wants to Keep His Job? March 13, 2000. (short short)
McCann, Colum,
--Wood, November 29, 1999.
McDermott, Alice,
--Enough, April 10, 2000.
McKelway, St. Clair,
--The Shooting at Forty-Seven, 1954. *
McPhee, John,
--Los Angeles Against the Mountains, September 26, 1988. (The Control of Nature)
--The Gravel Page, January 29, 1996. (crime fact)
--Los Angeles Against the Mountains, February 21 & February 28, 2000. (reprint)
Menashe, Samuel,
--Inklings, March 22, 1999. (poem)
Merwin, W. S.,
--Waves in August, September 15, 1997. (poem)
--Chorus, March 8, 1999. (poem)
Meulen, Ever,
--The Unbearable Lightness of Reading, October 4, 1999. (cover art)
Michaels, Leonard,
--The Penultimate Conjecture, February 1, 1999. **
Middleton, Christopher,
--Old Milwaukee Man's Wonders, December 13, 1999. (poem)
Millhauser, Steven,
--The Disappearance of Elaine Coleman, November 22, 1999.
Milosz, Czeslaw,
--Helene, November 17, 1997. (poem)
--A Castle from a Dream, December 21, 1998. (poem)
--Falling in Love, December 21, 1998. (poem)
Moody, Rick,
--It Generally Leads a Solitary Life or Lives in Pairs, October 5, 1998. (verse)
--Hawaiian Night, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
Moore, Lorrie,
--Real Estate, August 17, 1998.
Morris, Wright,
--Fellow-Creatures, 1984. *
Morton, Oliver,
--The First Galactic Empire, in Brooklyn, May 17, 1999. (article about Isaac Asimov, John W. Campbell, George Lucas)
Mosley, Walter,
--Pet Fly, December 13, 1999.
Moss, Howard,
--Conclusion, February 22 & March 1, 1999. (oem)
Moyles, Lois,
--From a Lecture Delivered in a Crosswind, January 17, 2000. (poem)
Muldoon, Paul,
--Wire, September 7, 1998.
--The Ancestor, January 17, 2000. (poem)
Mumps, Mensa,
--Dura, Pia, and the Santa Maria, April 1, 1949.
--Obloquy for an Obnoxious Oboist, April 1, 1959.
--Gwinett, April 1, 1964.
--Defenestration for the Masses, April 1, 1969.
--Quasiantidisestablishmentarianism and the Unabridged, April 1, 1979.
--Taking Umbrage and Troy, April 1, 1989.
Munro, Alice,
--Meneseteung, 1987. *
--The Albanian Virgin, 1994.
--Carried Away, 1994.
--The Jack Randa Hotel, 1994.
--Open Secrets, 1994.
--A Form of Marriage, 1994. (aka A Real Life)
--Vandals, 1994.
--A Wilderness Station, 1994.
--The Love of a Good Woman, December 23 & 30, 1996.
--Save the Reaper, June 22 & 29, 1998.
--Before the Change, August 24 & 31, 1998.
--The Bear Came Over the Mountain, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000.
--Nettles, February 21 & February 28, 2000.
Murakami, Haruki,
--New York Mining Disaster, January 11, 1999.
Murphy, Richard,
--Circles, May 17, 1999. (poem)
Murray, Les,
--The Harleys, October 18 - October 25, 1999. (poem)
--Incunabular, December 20, 1999. (poem)
Nabokov, Vladimir,
--Butterflies, June 12, 1948.
--Conclusive Evidence, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. (review of Speak, Memory)
--Butterflies, February 21 & February 28, 2000. (reprint)
Nathan, Leonard,
--My Kind, November 30, 1998. * (poem)
--Conversation, November 30, 1998. * (poem)
Nelson, Antonya,
--Party of Ooe, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
--Stitches, September 20, 1999.
Nunn, Emily,
--Overlooked by the Tonys, June 7, 1999. (short short)
Nurkse, D.,
--A Night in Toluna, October 11, 1999. (poem)
Oates, Joyce Carol,
--Nostalgia, July 27, 1998. (poem)
O'Brien, Edna,
--Yeats in Love, September 27, 1999. (book review)
--Forbidden, March 20, 2000.
O'Brien, Tim,
--Nogales, March 8, 1999.
O'Connor, Frank,
--The Drunkard, July 3, 1948.
O'Hara, John,
--Nil Nisi, January 10, 1948.
--Requiescat, April 3, 1948.
Oe, Kenzaburo,
--Dream Pictures, July 13, 1998.
Oliver, Mary,
--Winter at Herring Cove, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000. (poem)
Orlean, Susan,
--Shiftless Little Loafers, July 22, 1996. * (short short)
O'Toole, Fintan,
--The Many Stories of Billy the Kid, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. (article)
Owen, David,
--Here's a Really Great Idea, November 1, 1999. (short short)
Ozick, Cynthia,
--The Shawl, 1980. *
--Puttermesser Paired, October 8, 1990. * O. Henry Prize
--Actors, October 5, 1998.
Paley, Grace,
--Friends, 1980. *
--I See My Friend Everywhere, January 31, 2000. (poem)
Panter-Downes, Molie,
--Beside the Still Waters, October 30, 1948.
Parker, James Reid,
--Tenth Street Idyll, February 28, 1948.
Parks, Tim,
--Santa's Copter, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. (short short)
Parsons, Elizabeth,
--Welcome Home, April 17, 1948.
Perillo, Lucia,
--Lament in Good Weather, October 26-November 2, 1998. (poem)
Peters, Astrid,
--The Mountain, March 13, 1948.
Peterson, Geri,
--The Grimm Truth, December 7 & 14, 1998. (poem)
Pierpont, Claudia Roth,
--French Kiss: Two Biographies of Colette, November 29, 1999. (book review)
Pinsky, Robert,
--Samurai Song, January 11, 1999. ** (poem)
--The Green Piano, March 15, 1999. (poem)
Price, Richard,
--Runner, April 6, 1998.
Proulx, Annie,
--The Mud Below, June 22 & June 29, 1998.
--The Bunchgrass Edge of the World, November 30, 1998.
--The Blood Bay, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. (short short)
Raphael, Frederic,
--A Kubrick Odyssey, June 14, 1999. (article)
Remnick, David,
--Joseph Heller, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000. (obituary)
Rice, Stan,
--The Strangeness, March 6, 2000. (poem)
Richmond, Peter,
--Flash: Junior to Royals! December 20, 1999. (short short)
Roberts, Michael,
--Steeling Beauty, September 20, 1999. (cover art)
Robertson, Robin,
--Wedding the Locksmith's Daughter, January 10, 2000. (poem)
Robinson, Arthur,
--The Boy on the Train, 1989. *
Robison, James,
--Home, 1980. *
Robison, Mary,
--I Get By, July 21, 1986. *
Rollinson, Neil,
--My Father Shaving Charles Darwin, October 18 - October 25, 1999. (poem)
Ross, Lillian,
--Hemingway Told Me Things, May 24, 1999. (article)
Roth, Philip,
--Defender of the Faith,
--Communist, August 3, 1998.
Rudnick, Paul,
--Totally Amazing Grace, January 17, 2000. (short short)
Rushdie, Salman,
--Vina Divina, April 5, 1999.
Russo, Richard,
--Dog, December 23 & 30, 1996.
Ryan, Kay,
--Blandeur, November 24, 1997. (poem)
--Yeses, October 26-November 2, 1998. (poem)
--A Hundred Bolts of Satin, December 7 & 14, 1998. (poem)
--Failure, December 7 & 14, 1998. (poem)
--Patience, November 29, 1999. * (poem)
--The Job, January 31, 2000. (poem)
Salinger, J. D.,
--A Perfect Day for Bananafish, January 31, 1948.
--Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, 1953.
--Just Before the War with the Eskimos, 1953.
--The Laughing Man, 1953.
--For Esmé - With Love and Squalor, 1953.
--Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes, 1953.
--Teddy, 1953.
Salter, Mary Jo,
--A Leak Somewhere, July 27, 1998. (poem)
--Mr. X, February 22 & March 1, 1999. * (poem)
Saunders, George,
--Winky, July 28, 1997.
--Sea Oak, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999.
--I CAN SPEAK!TM, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
--The Barber's Unhappiness, December 20, 1999.
--Pastoralia, April 3, 2000.
Seabrook, John,
--Letter from Skywalker Ranch: Why Is the Force Still with Us? January 6, 1997. (article)
Segal, Lore,
--The Reverse Bug, May 1, 1989. O. Henry: Third Prize
Seibold, J. Otto,
--Work Station, Play Station, December 6, 1999. (cover art)
Seshadri, Vijay,
--Locus Solus, March 11, 1996. (poem)
--The Scholar, December 2, 1996. (poem)
Seuss, Dr.,
--see Art, Spiegelman, July 12, 1999. (article)
Simic, Charles,
--Odd Sympathies, October 26-November 2, 1998. (poem)
--Private Eye, April 5, 1999. (poem)
--The One to Worry About, December 13, 1999. (poem)
--The Secret of the Yellow Room, December 20, 1999. (poem)
--Dog on a Chain, March 6, 2000. (poem)
Simon, Maurya,
--Alone, September 6, 1999. (poem)
Singer, Isaac Bashevis,
--The Safe Deposit, 1980. *
--Burial at Sea,
--Disguised,
--The House Friend,
--The Recluse,
Singer, Mark,
--Court Buff, December 15, 1980. (Profile of Benjamin Shine)
--What Are You Afraid Of? (on Stephen King), September 7, 1998. (article)
--Court Buff, February 21 & February 28, 2000. (reprint)
--The Man Who Forgets Nothing, March 27, 2000. (article about Martin Scorsese)
Smith, Charlie,
--Straight, March 29, 1999. (poem)
--Yellow Poppies, June 21 & June 28, 1999. (poem)
Smith, Dave,
--Red Dog, October 11, 1999. (poem)
Smith, Owen,
--Brace Yourself, September 13, 1999. (cover art)
--Nighthawks New Year, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000. (cover art)
Sontag, Susan,
--The Way We Live Now, 1987. *
Sorel, Edward,
--Ghouls Rush In, February 17, 1997. (cover art)
Specter, Michael,
--The Nobel Syndrome, October 5, 1998. (article)
Spencer, Elizabeth,
--The Finder, 19xx. *
Spiegelman, Art,
--The Plastic Arts, April 19, 1999. (cover art)
--Comix 101: Forms Stretched to Their Limits, April 19, 1999. (article about Jack Cole and "Plastic Man")
--Horton Hears a Heil, July 12, 1999. * (article about Dr. Seuss)
--Abstract Thought Is a Warm Puppy, February 14, 2000. (article about Charles Schultz)
Stafford, Jean,
--Children Are Bored on Sunday, February 21, 1948. * Best American Short Stories of 1949
--A Summer Day, September 11, 1948.
Steig, Jeanne,
--The Golden Touch, April 26 & May 3, 1999. (poem)
Stern, Gerald,
--Oskar, November 17, 1997. (poem)
--March 27, March 29, 1999. (poem)
Stone, Robert,
--Helping, 1987. *
--Dominion, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000.
Strand, Mark,
--A Piece of the Storm, January 5, 1998. (poem)
--Hour, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000. * (poem)
Suri, Manil,
--The Seven Circles, February 14, 2000.
Swartz, Mimi,
--Family Secret, November 17, 1997. (article: John Salvi)
Taylor, Peter
--The Old Forrest, 1979. *
Thompson, Hunter S.,
--The Price of Rum, September 7, 1998.
Tolstaya, Tatyana,
--The Snow Collectors, December 28, 1998/January 4, 1999. * (short short) (translated by Jamie Gambrell)
--White Walls, January 17, 2000. (translated by Jamey Gambrell)
Trevor, William,
--Big Bucks, February 10, 1997.
--The Mourning, September 8, 1997.
--A Friend in the Trade, February 8, 1999.
--The Hill Bachelors, November 8, 1999.
Trillin, Calvin,
--Oh Y2K, Yes Y2K, How Come It Has to End This Way?, December 13, 1999. (poem)
Tuck, Lily,
--Hotter, December 21, 1998.
Ulriksen, Mark,
--Center fo the Universe, January 10, 2000. (cover art)
Updike, John,
--Pigeon Feathers, 1961. * Best American Short Stories 1962
--Marching through Boston, 1966.
--The Witnesses, 1966.
--The Pro, 1966.
--The Taste of Metal, 1967.
--Museums and Women, 1967.
--Man and Daughter in the Cold, 1968.
--The Corner, 1969.
--The Day of the Dying Rabbit, 1969.
--I Will Not Let Thee Go, Except Thou Bless Me, 1969.
--One of My Generation, 1969.
--The Hillies, 1969.
--The Deacon, 1970.
--The Orphaned Swimming Pool, 1970.
--The Carol Sing, 1970.
--Plumbing, 1971.
--The Baluchitherium, 1971.
--Jesus on Honshu, 1971.
--Solitaire, 1972.
--The Chaste Planet, 1975.
--Leaf Season, October 13, 1986. *
--Deaths of Distant Friends, 1987. *
--The Afterlife, 1994.
--Brother Grasshopper, 1994.
--Conjunction, 1994.
--The Journey to the Dead, 1994.
--The Man Who Became a Soprano, 1994.
--Short Easter, 1994.
--A Sandstone Farmhouse, 1994.
--The Other Side of the Street, 1994.
--Tristan and Iseult, 1994.
--Farrell's Garden, 1994.
--Falling Asleep Up North, 1994.
--His Mother Inside Him, 1994.
--Baby's First Step, 1994.
--Playing with Dynamite, 1994.
--The Black Room, 1994.
--Cruise, 1994.
--Grandparenting, 1994.
--Country Music, March 8, 1999. (poem)
--Robert Frost, March 15, 1999. (book review)
--A Sense of Change, April 26 & May 3, 1999. (nostaglia)
--"How Was It Really?," May 17, 1999.
--The Hedge, June 7, 1999. (poem)
--E. B. White and Charlotte's Web, July 12, 1999. * (article about E. B. White)
--Metamorphosis, August 9, 1999.
--Jesus and Elvis, December 6, 1999. * (poem)
Ursu, Liliana,
--Life Underground, translated by Tess Gallagher and Adam J. Sorkin, February 10, 1997. (poem)
--In the City of What Once Was, translated by Tess Gallagher and Adam J. Sorkin, February 10, 1997. (poem)
--The Purification of Space for Dorothy, August 23 & August 30, 1999. (poem)
Vollmann, William T.,
--The Saviors, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
von Reis, Siri,
--Fitting, April 19, 1999. (poem)
Wallace, David Foster,
--Asset, June 21 & June 28, 1999.
Warren, Rosanna,
--Island in the Charles, September 21, 1998. (poem)
--Travel, October 4, 1999. (poem)
--Simile, April 10, 2000. ** (poem)
Wechsberg, Joseph,
--A Very Late Pilgrim, September 4, 1948.
Weiner, Jonathan,
--Lord of the Flies, April 5, 1999. (article about Seymour Benzer)
West, Jessamyn,
--Then He Goes Free, January 24, 1948.
--Road to the Isles, February 21, 1948. * Best American Short Stories of 1949
Wetzsteon, Rachel,
--Love and Work, July 12, 1999. (poem)
White, E. B.,
--Farewell, My Lovely! May 16, 1936. (Onward & Upward with the Arts)
--The Door, 1939.
--see Updike, John, July 12, 1999. (article)
--Farewell, My Lovely! February 21 & February 28, 2000. (reprint)
Wilbur, Richard,
--This Pleasing Anxious Being, December 21, 1998. (poem)
--The Gambler, April 26 & May 3, 1999. (poem)
--Mayflies, June 14, 1999. (poem)
--Crow's Nests, November 22, 1999. (poem)
Willard, Nancy,
--At Tivoli Bays, June 21 & June 28, 1999. (poem)
Wilson, Sloan,
--Drunk on the Train, January 3, 1948.
--The Reunion, March 6, 1948.
Wilson, William E.,
--Goodbye at the Bus Stop, March 13, 1948.
Wolcott, James,
--Too Much Pulp (X-Files and Millennium), January 6, 1997. (article)
Wolff, Tobias,
--Nightingale, January 6, 1997.
--Kiss, March 29, 1999.
Woo, David,
--The Solitary, August 24 & 31, 1998. (poem)
Wright, Charles,
--Autumn's Sidereal, November's a Ball and Chain, October 19, 1998. (poem)
--Indian Summer II, October 19, 1998. (poem)
Young, Kevin,
--Langston Hughes, February 8, 1999. (poem)
Zarin, Cynthia,
--Angelus, April 19, 1999. (poem)
--Bruise, May 31, 1999. (poem)
--Harriet, November 1, 1999. (poem)