Review of Contemporary Fiction

Susan Stewart, "The Bowerbirds" Robert Coover, "On Mrs. Willie Masters" Bradford Morrow, "A Girandole for Mr. Gass" Mary Caponegro "Lookin' with Gass" Rikki Ducornet "A Dream" Heide Ziegler "Three Encounters with Germany: Goethe, Holderlin, Rilke" Michael Eastman "Photographs" Joanna Scott "Homage to Bill Gass" John Barth "As Sinuous and Tough as Ivy" Ingo Schulze "Toast or Corn? Notes I made for This Speech and Then Discarded" Heather McHugh "To His Health" Richard Watson "Second Is Last" Diane Ackerman "One Beautiful Mind" Lorin Cuoco "Page 399?" Ethan Shaskan Bumas "William H. Gass Meets the -ba particle" Paul West "At-Swim among the Noble Gasses" Joan Elkin "Portrait" Walter Abish "Even Vienna could not forever endure this struggle" Walter Abish "Even Vienna could not forever endure this struggle" Michael Silverblatt "Review Essays: The Tunnel: A Small Apartment in Hell"