Nonfiction
Winter 2001
From Experience to Innocence: An Interview with William H. Gass
William H. Gass, novelist, essayist, philosopher, and teacher, has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism twice. His nonfiction works include Fiction and the Figures of Life, Habitations […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1986
Some Snapshots from the Soviet Zone
I The dismal Danes had lost our bags … cartons of books … gifts to our hosts. A darling blond “girl scout” in an SAS coat had assured us we […]
Personally Speaking
Autumn 1984
The Habitations of the Word
Plato’s Phaedrus has seemed to some critics to have too many subjects; to be drawn first in this direction and then in that, as if those uncooperative horses which it […]
Fiction
Winter 1979
The Old Folks
Who is not in league? The children waddle toward me, blue pants on the bigger one, yellow on the other. I lift them on the train. Away we go! We […]