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)

Naipaul, V. S., (1932- )
--Bohemia, October 22, 2001.

Nash, Ogden, (1902-1971)
--Autres Bêtes, Autres Moeurs, November 15, 1930. * (poem)
--Lines to Be Embroidered on a Bib, November 22, 1947. * (poem)
--Epitaph for an Explorer, November 20, 1948. * (poem)
--Long Time No See, 'Bye Now, September 10, 1949. * (poem)
--Just How Low Can a Highbrow Go When a Highbrow Lowers His Brow? August 30, 1958. * (poem)
--What's Sauce Pour L'Ouie Is Sauce Pour L'État C'Est Moi, August 17, 1968. * (poem)
--Lines to Be Embroidered on a Bib, August 5, 2002. (reprint)
--Just How Low Can a Highbrow Go When a Highbrow Lowers His Brow? August 5, 2002. (reprint)
--Autres Bêtes, Autres Moeurs, August 5, 2002. (reprint)
--Epitaph for an Explorer, August 5, 2002. (reprint)
--What's Sauce Pour L'Ouie Is Sauce Pour L'État C'Est Moi, August 5, 2002. (reprint)
--Long Time No See, 'Bye Now, August 5, 2002. (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.
--Only a Thing, November 4, 2002.

Nesbitt, Marc,
--Gigantic, July 9, 2001.

Niemann, Christoph,
--Star Wars and Stripes Foever, July 9, 2001. (cover art)

Nunn, Emily,
--Overlooked by the Tonys, June 7, 1999. (short short)

Nurkse, D.,
--A Night in Toluna, October 11, 1999. (poem)
--Custody Wars, March 4, 2002. (poem)

Oates, Joyce Carol,
--Nostalgia, July 27, 1998. (poem)
--Night Driving, June 18 & 25, 2001. (poem)
--Upholstery, March 18, 2002.
--Bound, April 22 & 29, 2002. (Low Ebb: biographical sketch)

O'Brien, Edna,
--Yeats in Love, September 27, 1999. (book review)
--Forbidden, March 20, 2000.
--A Boy in the Forest, February 4, 2002.

O'Brien, Tim,
--Nogales, March 8, 1999.
--Winnipeg, August 14, 2000.
--Too Skinny, September 10, 2001.
--Half Gone, July 8, 2002.

O'Connor, Frank,
--The Drunkard, July 3, 1948.

O'Hara, John,
--Nil Nisi, January 10, 1948.
--Requiescat, April 3, 1948.

Oe, Kenzaburo, (1935- )
--Dream Pictures, July 13, 1998.
--For a Lousy Battery, October 15, 2001. (culture fragment)

Olds, Sharon,
--His Costume, September 11, 2000. (poem)
--5¢ a Peek, November 6, 2000. * (poem)
--The Space Heater, January 22, 2001. (poem)
--Silence, with Two Texts, April 9, 2001. (poem)
--The Last Evening, March 4, 2002. (poem)
--Wonder as Wander, June 3, 2002. * (poem)

Oliver, Mary, (1935- )
--Winter at Herring Cove, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000. (poem)
--One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day, July 24, 2000. (poem)
--Crows, September 25, 2000. * (poem)
--Early Snow, January 15, 2001. * (poem)
--Lingering in Happiness, January 13, 2003. * (poem)

Orlean, Susan,
--Shiftless Little Loafers, July 22, 1996. * (short short)
--Tainted Love, July 15, 2002. (short short)
--Nice Doggy, February 17 & 24, 2003. (short short)

Ormsby, Eric,
--The Song of the Whisk, May 7, 2001. (poem)

Orr, H. Allen,
--The Descent of Gould, September 30, 2002. (article about Stephen Jay Gould)

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)
--How I'm Doing, July 3, 2000. ** (short short)
--Popularity, July 8, 2002. (short short)

Ozick, Cynthia,
--The Shawl, 1980. *
--Puttermesser Paired, October 8, 1990. * O. Henry Prize
--Actors, October 5, 1998.

Packer, ZZ,
--Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, June 19 & June 26, 2000.
--The Ant of the Self, November 25, 2002.

Paley, Grace,
--Friends, 1980. *
--I See My Friend Everywhere, January 31, 2000. (poem)
--Between Pity and Remorse, October 15, 2001. (poem)
--My Father Addresses Me on the Facts of Old Age, June 17 & 24, 2002.
--Fathers, February 17 & 24, 2003. (poem)

Panter-Downes, Molie,
--Beside the Still Waters, October 30, 1948.

Parker, Ian,
--Absolute PowerPoint, May 28, 2001. (article)
--Showboat, April 8, 2002. (article about Roger Straus)

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.

Patch, Stephen, (Robert Hemenway, 1921- )
--The Girl Who Sang with the Beatles, January 11, 1969. O. Henry: First Prize

Perillo, Lucia,
--Lament in Good Weather, October 26-November 2, 1998. (poem)
--Canticle from the Book of Bob, February 12, 2001. * (poem)

Peters, Astrid,
--The Mountain, March 13, 1948.

Peterson, Geri,
--The Grimm Truth, December 7 & 14, 1998. (poem)

Phillips, Carl,
--Island, November 25, 2002. (poem)
--White Dog, January 27, 2003. (poem)

Pierpont, Claudia Roth,
--French Kiss: Two Biographies of Colette, November 29, 1999. (book review)
--Tough Guy, February 11, 2002. (article about Dashiell Hammett)
--The Silver Spire, November 18, 2002. (article about the Chrysler Building)

Pinsky, Robert, (1940- )
--Samurai Song, January 11, 1999. ** (poem)
--The Green Piano, March 15, 1999. (poem)
--The Game, August 21 & August 28, 2000. (poem)
--Door, April 2, 2001. (poem)
--First Things to Hand, November 19, 2001. (poem)

Pollitt, Katha,
--The Expulsion, November 12, 2001. ** (poem)
--Shore Road, May 13, 2002. (poem)

Ponsot, Marie,
--My Word Is My Bond, January 28, 2002. * (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)
--Big Skies, Empty Places, December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001. (article)
--Summer of the Hot Tubs, August 19 & 26, 2002.
--The Trickle-Down Effect, December 23 & December 30, 2002.

Raab, Lawrence,
--In Dreams, August 6, 2001. * (poem)

Raphael, Frederic,
--A Kubrick Odyssey, June 14, 1999. (article)

Rehak, Melanie,
--Still-Life, Middle Haddam Road, June 18 & 25, 2001. (poem)

Remnick, David,
--Joseph Heller, December 27, 1999 & January 3, 2000. (obituary)

Rice, Ben,
--The Specks in the Sky, December 24 & 31, 2001.

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)
--Thermal, April 16, 2001. (poem)
--The Flamingos, July 2, 2001. (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)

Roper, Martin,
--Our House, November 26, 2001.

Rosenbaum, Ron,
--Shakespeare Rewrite, May 13, 2002. (article)

Rosenfeld, Lucinda,
--The Male Gaze, July 3, 2000. * (author's first publication)

Ross, Lillian,
--Hemingway Told Me Things, May 24, 1999. (article)

Ross, Margaret Kemp,
--I Married My Dog, June 19 & June 26, 2000. (poem, illustrated by William Steig)

Roth, Philip, (1933- )
--Defender of the Faith, 1960.
--Communist, August 3, 1998.
--Re-Reading Saul Bellow, October 9, 2000. (book reviews)

Rudnick, Paul,
--Totally Amazing Grace, January 17, 2000. (short short)
--Teen Times, November 6, 2000. (short short)
--Profiles in Common Sense, December 18, 2000. (short short)
--My Friend Paco, February 5, 2001. (short short)
--All Apologies, March 25, 2002. * (short short)

Rushdie, Salman,
--Vina Divina, April 5, 1999.
--A Dream of Glorious Return, June 19 & June 26, 2000. (autobiographical article)
--Summer of Solanka, July 16, 2001.

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)
--Crown, May 22, 2000. * (poem)
--Green Hills, August 7, 2000. (poem)
--Things Shouldn't Be So Hard, June 4, 2001. (poem)

Ryan, Michael,
--An Old Book in Florence, November 18, 2002. * (poem)

S

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.
--Johnny Tremain, December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001. (article)

Schickler, David,
--The Smoker, June 19 & June 26, 2000.

Schultz, Philip,
--The Displaced, October 16 & 23, 2000. (poem)
--On First Hearing of Your Conception, September 13, 2000. (poem)

Schuyler, James,
--Along Overgrown Paths, April 24 & May 1, 2000. (poem)

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)

Sharma, Akhil,
--Prosperity, June 19 & June 26, 2000.

Silver, Marisa,
--The Passenger, June 19 & June 26, 2000.
--What I Saw from Where I Stood, October 30, 2000.

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)
--Roadside Stand, July 24, 2000. (poem)
--Street of Jewelers, October 16 & 23, 2000. (poem)
--To the One Tunnelling, January 15, 2001. (poem)

Simon, Maurya,
--Alone, September 6, 1999. (poem)

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, (1904-1991)
--The Safe Deposit, 1980. *
--Burial at Sea,
--Disguised,
--The House Friend,
--The Recluse,
--Two Stories: He Wants Forgiveness from Her & A Guest in the Shtibl, August 21 & August 28, 2999.

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)

Slansky, Paul,
--The Year 2000 Quiz, December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001. (puzzle)

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)
--The Witching Hour, November 6, 2000. * (cover art)

Sontag, Susan,
--The Way We Live Now, 1987. *

Sorel, Edward,
--Ghouls Rush In, February 17, 1997. (cover art)
--Fifty-fifty, December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001. (short article on Theodore Dreiser)

Spark, Muriel,
--A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur, June 5, 2000.
--My Madeleine, December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001. (article)

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, (1915-1979)
--Children Are Bored on Sunday, February 21, 1948. * Best American Short Stories of 1949
--A Summer Day, September 11, 1948.
--The Warlock, 1955. *

Steig, Jeanne,
--The Golden Touch, April 26 & May 3, 1999. (poem)

Stern, Gerald,
--Oskar, November 17, 1997. (poem)
--March 27, March 29, 1999. (poem)
--Alone, January 22, 2001. (poem)

Stewart, James B.,
--Mousetrap, July 31, 2000. (article on Time Warner vs. Disney ABC)

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.

Surowiecki, James,
--The Credit-Card Kings, November 27, 2000. (article on Capital One)

Swartz, Mimi,
--Family Secret, November 17, 1997. (article: John Salvi)

T

Tan, Amy,
--Immortal Heart, December 25, 2000/January 1, 2001.

Taylor, Peter
--The Old Forrest, 1979. *

Thomas, James Ellis,
--The Saturday Morning Car Wash Club, July 10, 2000. (author's first publication)

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)

Toobin, Jeffrey,
--The Counting House, December 4, 2000. (article on Presidential election)
--Shotgun Eviction, December 11, 2000. (article)

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.
--Traditions, December 18, 2000.

Trillin, Calvin,
--Oh Y2K, Yes Y2K, How Come It Has to End This Way?, December 13, 1999. (poem)

Tuck, Lily,
--Hotter, December 21, 1998.

U

Ulriksen, Mark,
--Center fo the Universe, January 10, 2000. (cover art)

Updike, John, (1932- )
--Pigeon Feathers, 1961. * Best American Short Stories 1962
--The Christian Roommates, 1964. American Short Story Masterpieces
--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.
--Bech Takes Pot Luck, September 7, 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. * Updike, John, (continued)
--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)
--Personal Archeology, May 29, 2000.
--Oz Is Us: Celebrating the Wizard's Centennial, September 25, 2000. (article about L. Frank Baum)
--Nelson and Annabelle (Part I), October 2, 2000.
--Nelson and Annabelle (Part II), October 9, 2000.
--Optical Hypertension, November 27, 2000. (poem)
--Free, January 8, 2001.

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)

V

Valentine, Jean,
--Sheep, December 11, 2000. (poem)

Vollmann, William T.,
--The Saviors, June 21 & June 28, 1999.

von Reis, Siri,
--Fitting, April 19, 1999. (poem)

W

Wallace, David Foster,
--Asset, June 21 & June 28, 1999.

Walton, Anthony,
--Gwendolyn Brooks, December 18, 2000. (poem)

Ware, Chris,
--Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, June 19 & June 26, 2000. (cartoon)

Warren, Rosanna,
--Island in the Charles, September 21, 1998. (poem)
--Travel, October 4, 1999. (poem)
--Simile, April 10, 2000. ** (poem)
--Hellenistic Head, June 12, 2000. (poem)
--Nightshade, August 14, 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)

Wilkinson, Alec,
--A Hole in the Ground, September 4, 2000. (true crime)

Willard, Nancy,
--At Tivoli Bays, June 21 & June 28, 1999. (poem)

Williams, C. K.,
--This Happened, February 5, 2001. (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.

Windolf, Jim,
--My Sexual Fantasies, November 20, 2000. (short short)

Wolcott, James,
--Too Much Pulp (X-Files and Millennium), January 6, 1997. (article)

Wolff, Tobias,
--Nightingale, January 6, 1997.
--Kiss, March 29, 1999.
--In the Hay, June 19 & June 26, 2000. (autobiographical article)
--The Most Basic Plan, November 27, 2000.

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)
--Relics, August 7, 2000. (poem)
--The Wind Is Calm and Comes from Another World, September 25, 2000. (poem)
--Whym, It's as Pretty as a Picture, December 4, 2000. (poem)

Wright, Franz,
--Address Search, June 5, 2000. (poem)
--Entry and Prayer, October 9, 2000. (poem)
--From a Discarded Image, January 8, 2001. * (poem)

Y

Yates, Richard, ( -1992)
--The Canal, January 15, 2001.

Young, Kevin,
--Langston Hughes, February 8, 1999. (poem)

Z

Zarin, Cynthia,
--Angelus, April 19, 1999. (poem)
--Bruise, May 31, 1999. (poem)
--Harriet, November 1, 1999. (poem)