Vol. 16 No. 2

Volume 16, Number 2 (2000)

Contents

JOSEPH MONNINGER
THOMAS BONFIGLIO
LAUREN SMALL
KATHERINE TOY MILLER
DOROTHEA STRAUS
WILLIAM GIRALDI
JOYCE CAROL OATES
CRAIG BERNTHAL
DANIEL GUTSTEIN
JOHANNAH RODGERS
ANNE HALLEY
JUDITH HERMANN
MARK JAY MIRSKY
DENNIS McFADDEN
JEFF DERRINGER
DAN LEONE
JOHN LOWRY

That Line Where Water Meets the Land
Civil Servant
Blue Pine
Red Boots
Romance in the Time of June
People Move On
The Beat Reporter
Route 18
Saturday Afternoon
Driving to India
Memory on the Mother Tongue
This Side of the Oder
The Island Wench
In The Treetop
The Doppelganger
The Way to a Man’s Heart the Right Way
Stout Robert

Vol. 16 No. 1

Volume 16, Number 1 (1999)

Contents

AHARON APPELFELD
YASUNARI KAWABATA

ROMULUS LINNEY
JOSEPH MONNINGER
ROBERT MUSIL

MARK JAY MIRSKY
GENESE GRILL
ROBERT MUSIL
BURTON PIKE
PHILIP PAYNE
KLAUS AMANN

JONAS GARDELL
STEPHEN D. GUTIERREZ


BRIAN WEST
DAVID WINNER
KIRK NESSET

Love Story
Raindrops
A Row of Trees
Mrs. Alving
Hunger Moon
Vinzenz and the Mistress of Important Men, Acts II and III
Notes on the Production & Text
Afterword
Letters on “The Man without Qualities” Editor Commentary

“I Have Become Too Abstract” On the Diaries of Robert Musil
The Mountain of Temptation
The Summer of That Summer, a Simple Tale Featuring a ‘57 Chevy of Superfluous & Unnecessary Means
Dislocations
The Rites of Pozzalo
Heartland

Vol. 15 No. 2

Volume 15, Number 2 (1998)

Contents

ANTON CHEKHOV
ROGER GRENIER
LUCIA NEVAI
JOYCE CAROL OATES
ROBERT MUSIL
J. ROBERT LENNON
NINA PELIKAN STRAUS
FRANZ KAFKA
SHEILA KOHLER
FRED G. LEEBRON
MARK JAY MIRSKY
WENDI KAUFMAN
DANIEL GUTSTEIN
LILY TUCK
MICHAEL K. MEYERS

The Trial
The Shut-Ins
Spring Break
What Then, My Life?
Vinzenz and the Mistress of Important Men
Cloud
Curly of the Apts.
From: The Trial
Pithiviers
Starf*cker
Puddingstones
Significant Other
Geshem b’Boker
Horses
The Second Man on the Moon

Vol. 15 No. 1

Volume 15, Number 1 (1998)

Contents

ANTON CHEKHOV
FRIGYES KARINTHY
KLAUS MANN


MARY GORDON
RUSSELL CHAMBERLAIN
CATHLEEN CALBERT
JOHN HOLMAN
SHARON SOLWITZ
J. ROBERT LENNON
REGINALD GIBBONS
JOHN LOWRY
JARDINE LIBAIRE


ROBERT SCHIRMER
R. S. STEINBERG
KATHERINE TOY MILLER

CRAIG S. KIRBY
MEG FILES
JOSHUA HARMON
ROB MORRIS

The Stationmaster
Mother
The Masked Ball
The Prodigal Son’s Dream of His Return Home
The Daughter of the Dancers
Lesson
Shark
Why They Named the Baby Lake
Girls With Red Hair
Twelve Terrors
Dogs That Climb Trees
The Temptation to Exist
On the Sixty-ninth Floor of Trump Tower: Ode to the 1980’s When Money Brought Love
Burning
Deadlines
Any Failure to Obey Orders Will Be Considered an Act of Aggression
The Origin of Numbers
Servings Per Container
Restless
Walker

Vol. 14 No. 2

Volume 14, Number 2 (1997)

Contents

MARY GORDON

TIM GAUTREAUX
KIRK NESSET
A.G. MOJTABAI
BENNET PARIS
ROGER GRENIER
JOYCE CAROL OATES
HEINRICH BÖLL
JOHN J. CLAYTON
DANIEL A. GUTSTEIN
EMILY CERF
GALE RENEE WALDEN
FRIGYES KARINTHY
MORTON MARCUS
DEBBIE LEE WESSELMAN
DOROTHEA STRAUS
FANNY HOWE
TABITHA GRIFFIN
LAURA LONG
LIZA LORWIN
STEPHEN D. GUTIERREZ
NEIL GRIMMETT
ELIZABETH GRAVER
BEN-ZION GOLD

My Podiatrist Tells Me a Story About a Boy and a Dog
Sorry Blood
Mr. Agreeable
The Juniper Tree
Car Door
“Dear little lady…”
The Penitent
The Rendezvous
Secret Lives
Blood Coal and Honey
A Little Toil of Love
The Field
The Woman
The Truth of the Matter
Lives of Their Own
The Legend
Nod
Two Stalks
Slow Melt
Living Expenses
Just Everything
Landlocked
Dream of the Stolen Skirt
Meeting Elijah: Succoth 5753-1992

Vol. 14 No. 1

Volume 14, Number 1 (1996)

Contents

THOMAS MANN
SUSAN MOON
ROBERT MUSIL
IVÁN MÁNDY
ELIZABETH BORRICK
GEORGE NICHOLAS
DANIEL QUINN
TOM YORI
MARK JAY MIRSKY
SHAHRNUSH PARSIPUR
ALFRED VITALE
BARRY SILESKY
MARY NAGEL
ZYRANNA ZATELI
JOHN CUSSEN

Avenged
When He Was Drunk and I Was Brave
Diaries (III)
The Pebble
A Secret Society
Ideal for Etc.
City Dogs
Grove Street
The Brooklyn Golem
The Story of the Men of Sialk Hills
september 9, 1993
Rat
Christmas
The Smoke Fiend
Deadpan

Vol. 13 No. 1 & 2

Volume 13, Numbers 1 & 2 (1996)

Contents

PHILIP PAYNE
ROBERT MUSIL
JOANNA LAUFER
KELLY CHERRY
PETER BEHRENS
VICKI LINDNER
DOROTHEA STRAUS
C. M. CURAN
PATRICK MODIANO
HEINRICH HEINE
ALEX MINDT
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
GORDON LISH

KARLA J. KUBAN
RIANA SCHEEPERS

Introduction to Robert Musil’s Diaries
Diaries
White Lake
The Prowler
Fiona the Emigrant
Saints Comes Marching In
The Cult
The Two of Them
Winter Circus
A Descent into the Mines
Immigration
A Drop of Cognac
A Party of Animals: In Less Than Thirty Minutes
The Things We Tell
The Flattened Dog

Vol. 12 No. 2 & 3

Volume 12, Numbers 2 & 3 (1994)

Contents

MARK JAY MIRSKY
PHILIP PAYNE
ROBERT MUSIL

ROBERT MENASSE
T. COLIN DODD
JON FOSSE
EARL M. COLEMAN
LUISA FUTORANSKY
RENÉ DEPESTRE
BENNETT CAPERS

JOSEPH MONNINGER
MORTON MARCUS
ELLEN COONEY
DAVID GROSSMAN
SHEILA KOHLER
JOE ASHBY PORTER
PETER ALTENBERG
MARK JAY MIRSKY
S. Y. AGNON

INÉS ARREDONDO

Note from the Editor
Note from the Translator
Diaries
From: The Man Without Qualities
Happy Times, Brittle World
The Bugs In Austin
The Boatshed
Winter Whites
Like They Used To Make Them
Roséna on the Mountain
The Kiss
Swans Mate For Life
Crow Dance
The Man Who Committed Suicide
What I Saw
Paired Days
Mask
Naufrage and Diapason
Three Glimpses from the Belle Epoque
A Mother’s Ghost
Hill of Sand
On One Stone
Being Alive

Vol. 12 No. 1

Volume 12, Number 1 (1994)

Contents

WITOLD GOMBROWICZ
IDA FINK
LEX WILLIFORD
ROBERT FOX
PHILIP WATTS
LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE

GALE RENEE WALDEN
MARY GORDON
RICARDO PAU-LLOSA
KIRK NESSET
JOHN J. CLAYTON
KETO VON WABERER
HEINRICH BÖLL
EDDIE STACK
KATHERINE ARNOLDI
KATE WALBERT
LAMED SHAPIRO
SHARON SOLWITZ
JAN MEISSNER
FRANCES LEFKOWITZ

CRAIG KIRBY

From: Trans-Atlantyk
Birds
Influenza
Breath
An Introduction to Céline
From: Féerie pour une autre fois
From: Normance
The Men We Know
Walt
Resbaloso
Mr. Excitement
Talking to Charlie
The White Sofa
From: The Silent Angel
Angels
X
Tokyo, 1963
Bertha
Cuddling the Harlot
The Art of Confession
Service with a Smile
Southbound
Sanctuary

Vol. 11 No. 3

Volume 11, Number 3 (1994)

Contents

JOYCE CAROL OATES
JOSIP NOVAKOVICH
REBECCA BAGGETT
DAVID SURFACE
ELLEN WINTER
PETER HANDKE



GREG RILEY

MARK WISNIEWSKI
DEBORAH SCHUPACK
CAROLYN FERRELL
PÉTER ESTERHÁZY
ALBERT GUERARD
PETER BRICKLEBANK
TOMOMI HIRADE
RONALD SUKENICK
BARRY SILESKY
GEOFFREY WAGNER

Hammerklavier
Dormitory on the Danube
Immunity
Welcome to Mercy
Call Me Ruby
From: Once Again for Thucydides 
Attempt to Exorcise One Story with Another
The Short Fable of the Ash Tree in Munich
Bless Us
Krispy Kreme
Runaway
Flight
The Miracle Answer
Hungarian Cooking
From: A Taste for Risk
Tableau Vivant
What Is a Man?
From: Mosaic Man
The Killer Clowns
The Deserter

Vol. 11 No. 2

Volume 11, Number 2 (1993)

Contents

PATRICK CHAMOISEAU
RENÉ DEPESTRE
MARY CLARK
ROBIE MACAULEY
CHRISTA WOLF
JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL
STEPHEN GIBSON
JASON TRASK
MICHAEL KRÜGER
ALFRED LESLIE and DAVID SHAPIRO
LARS GUSTAFSSON
LILY TUCK
BRIDGET MAZUR
ERIN VAN RHEENEN
LAURIE LYNN DRUMMOND
FRANCESCA DOW

Red Hot Peppers
Hallelujah for a Woman-Garden
The Red-Headed Man
Lost
Trial by Nail
Alsace, 1927
Hermit Crab
Flight Patterns
The Man in the Tower
Orange Colored Sky

A Tiler’s Afternoon
Bloomsday in Bangkok
Almost Her
Searsville Lake
Cleaning Your Gun
Great White

Vol. 11 No. 1

Volume 11, Number 1 (1992)

Contents

SUSAN MINOT
MARIO BENEDETTI
ROBIN BRADFORD
JOHN LOWRY
GABRIELLE SELZ
CYNTHIA KOLBOWSKI
DON McCORMICK
LARS GYLLENSTEN
DAVID MOUAT
DANIELA DRAŽANOVÁ
LIA SMITH
SIGRID NUNEZ
ROBERT WALSER
KURT SCHWITTERS
DOROTHEA STRAUS
SHOLEM ALEICHEM
MARK MIRSKY
HISASHI INOUE

Bliss Mountain
Innocence
Conjugating Husband and Wife
On Mars
Eve
The Fitting
Rollers
The Witness
Drawn With Pigtails
Jesenice
Collect Calls
This Is It
The Kiss
The Onion (Merzpoem 8)
The Bachelor
Joseph
Westward Ho!
In the Pot

Vol. 10 No. 3

Volume 10, Number 3 (1991)

Contents

KATHRYN BURAK
DAN LEONE
JOYCE CAROL OATES
RICHARD KOSTELANETZ
REBECCA BAGGETT
HAROLD BRODKEY
ALICIA OSTRIKER
ROB SWIGART
JIM FINNEY
KATHLEEN BAUM
LEONARD KRIEGEL

ROBERT HILDT
GAY WALLEY
BARBARA FLYNN

CLAUDIO MAGRIS
MARK MIRSKY
GARY AMDAHL

In August
Helping a Duck
Goose-Girl
Shorter Stories
Confession
Eliot
The Wrestling
Glitch
The Man Who Didn’t Talk Much
Virginia Avenue
On August 29, 1950 Stars Are Still Plentiful in the Heavens of The Bronx
Pulling the Plug
Other Parties
Alfred Leslie on The Grisaille Paintings, 1962–67, an Interview
Il Conde
Emerson’s Child
Visigoth

Vol. 9 No. 3

Volume 9, Number 3 (1990)

Contents

PETER HANDKE
CLAUDIO MAGRIS
HAROLD BRODKEY
RUTH ZERNOVA
GABRIELLE SELZ
LISA PONECK

BRUCE ROBINSON
EZRA ZONANA
MITCHELL LEVENBERG
DEBORAH JOY COREY
LIA SMITH
MATTHEW SHARPE
SIRI HUSTVEDT
URS WIDMER
MARK JAY MIRSKY

Absence
Music Lessons
Spring 1989
Orna the Lab Technician
Listening
Better Homes
The Scroll of Esther
Hitting to Right
The Smell of My Fingers
Soup
A Private Place to Be
At Birth
The Diplomat
Houdini
Portrait of My Parents as a Young Couple
A Mother’s Ark

Vol. 9 No. 2

Volume 9, Number 2 (1989)

Contents

JUAN BENET
ADOLFO BIOY-CASARES
MAX FRISCH

ANNA SPER
JÜRG LAEDERACH
DAVID HELLERSTEIN
NAHID RACHLIN
ENID DAME
SEYMOUR SIMCKES
URI NISSAN GNESSIN
DELSA WINER
DANIEL BORN
SHARON LYNN PUGH
DIANE SIMMONS
BRIAN KITELEY
PERI CHALMERS

Reichenau
Trio
The Writer and His Partners/
The Function of Literature in Society
The Crossing
Conversation
Crack Time
Blizzard in Istanbul
Who’s Not Ready
The Unknown Noah
Afterwards
New Winter
Glassware
Tell Me You Love Me
Up at The Church
Dancing Executives
Bastille Day Night

Vol. 9 No. 1

Volume 9, Number 1 (1989)

Contents

JOYCE CAROL OATES
LUCY HONIG
JOHN HAWKES
LUCIA NEVAI
MARGUERITE DURAS
RUSSELL BANKS
CAMILO JOSÉ CELA
ANTHONY KERRIGAN
MARTHA UPTON
MICHAEL KUN
ROBERTA GORDON
ELIAS PAPADIMITRAKOPOULOS

MITCHELL LEVENBERG
ELIZABETH RICHARDS
MICHAEL STEPHENS

That Summer
Open Season
A Boy’s Garden of Sex
Bachelor
Summer 1980
Affliction
The Fable of the Poet on the Island
Before the Final Ice Cream
The Kiss of Death Shuttle
Tailors Missing Seamstresses
French History
Glykeria
The Visit
Ripe Figs
The Cruller
Tell Me How Things Are
Syllables

Vol. 8 No. 2 & 3

Volume 8, Numbers 2 & 3 (1987)

Contents

JOHN BARTH
JEFFREY C. KINKLEY
YE WEILIN
LU WENFU
WANG ZENGQI
ZHANG XINXIN
TIE NING
MARGUERITE DURAS
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
ANA MARÍA MATUTE
BRIAN KITELEY
JÜRG LAEDERACH
ADOLFO BIOY-CASARES

WILLIAM TESTER
NAHID RACHLIN
FREDERIC TUTEN
KARIE YOUNGDAHL
ROBERT ELLIS GORDON
MARK JAY MIRSKY
FAYE SOBKOWSKY
ANONYMOUS

Dun Cove to Madison
Foreword
Five Girls and One Rope
The Wealthy Farmer
Small-Hands Chen
Theatrical Effects
Ah, Fragrant Snow
Summer 1980
Here and There
Do Not Touch
Still Life With Insects
Walk Your Thoughts
The Adventure of a Photographer in La Plata
Floridita
Office Song
Jean Lambert Tallien: A Romance
The Cutting Line
Saving My Father
Last of the Ponkapoags
Joe-Pye Weed
Mourning Songs

Vol. 7 No. 3 & Vol. 8 No. 1

Volume 7, Number 3 & Volume 8, Number 1 (1985)

Contents

PRIMO LEVI
CLOTILDE MARGHIERI
MASSIMO BONTEMPELLI
EDITH BRUCK
LUIGI PIRANDELLO
BARBARA ALBERTI

GIORGIO MANGANELLI


NATALIA GINZBURG
JUAN GARCÍA PONCE
JOYCE CAROL OATES
E.J. CULLEN
AHARON APPELFELD
BRUNO SCHULZ
TERENCE WINCH
RUSSELL BANKS
YVONNE BABY

CHRISTOPHER McILROY


CHRISTINA LOWELL BRAZELTON
MARTHA BAER
RUSSELL FAUX
TEREZE GLUCK
MINDY PENNYBACKER
SAUL BELLOW
JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET
MICHELE WALLACE

ANTHONY KERRIGAN


MAX FRISCH



GAIL DONOHUE
JAROSŁAW IWASZKIEWICZ
GEOFF HERMAN
MARK MIRSKY
CRIS MAZZA
THE ZOHAR

The Gypsy
Death of a Mother
My Civil Death
A Surprise
The Stuffed Bird
From: Wicked Memories

From: Centuria: One Hundred Little Sagas

House at the Sea
The Night
Sonata Quasi una Fantasia
Letter to the Institution
Chanukah 1946
Four Letters
Black Canyon
Mistake
The Day and the Night

In a Landscape Animals Shrink to Nothing

The Dairy
Things That Repeat Themselves
Jimmy and Jimmy’s Boy
Domestic Betrayals: A Family Album
The Extended Family
Introduction to Ortega
From: The Rebellion of the Masses
From: Former Friends

Nora and the Letter to his Africander Wife in London to be Posted in Spain

Lecture at City College
November 1981, Part One
Question and Answer

I Exist by Myself in My Love for It
Icarus
Bristol
The Brass Nail
At the Meat Counter
Love in the Afterlife

Vol. 7 No. 1 & 2

Volume 7, Numbers 1 & 2 (1983)

Contents

DAVID STERN
MARK JAY MIRSKY
ANONYMOUS
ANONYMOUS
ANONYMOUS
ANONYMOUS
JUDAH THE HASID
MOSES DE LEON
ISAAC IBN SAHULA
NAHMAN OF BRATSLAV
CORI JONES
DAVID ALBAHARI
EDMOND JABÈS
PRIMO LEVI
FANNY HOWE
ROGER SALLOCH
MARK JAY MIRSKY
M.D. KEYISHIAN
ALBERT J. GUERARD
HOWARD SCHWARTZ

Introduction
Introduction
Rabbinic Parables
Midrash on the Ten Commandments
Eleh Ezkerah
The Alphabet of Ben Sira
Narrative Fantasies from Sefer Hasidim
Jacob’s Journey
The Sorcerer
Bratslav Dreams
The Man With the Truck
Some Things We’ll Never Know
Aely
The Juggler
The Ruth Tractate
The Handicapped Man
Dante and King David
The Judge’s Daughter
The Last Broadcast
The Tale of Lilith

Vol. 6 No. 2

Volume 6, Number 2 (1980)

Contents

ITALO CALVINO
DONALD BARTHELME
ADOLFO BIOY CASARES
CORI JONES
JOHN IRVING
ANNE HALLEY
F. JEANNERET
PIERRETTE FLEUTIAUX
LISA KATZ
JOHN YAU
SILVINA OCAMPO
JOSEPH McELROY
MARK JAY MIRSKY
DENISE CASSENS
RONALD SUKENICK
JOHN L’HEUREUX
CHRIS ANDERSON
FANNY HOWE

The Adventure of a Soldier
The Farewell Party
An Affair
Night Ride
Interior Space
A Berlin Story
Table Water
The Roof
Not Like A Woman
A Different Prince
Coral Fernandez
Division of Labor Unknown
The Blue Star
Honeymoon
Endless Short Story: Boxes
Brief Lives in California
Our Bar
Blind Tiger: A Meditation