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Unspoken, Unspeakable

Tribute

Samuel Beckett: Speaking the Unspeakable

Mel Gussow | Uproarious Pessimism

Richard Seaver | The Terror of the Words

Jeannette Seaver | Evenings in Paris

Edward Albee | Pure Magic

Paul Auster | Laughter in the Dark

Christopher Ricks | Deranged Punctilio

Israel Horovitz | Father of Choice

Tom Bishop | Language Barriers

Gertrude Stein: The Art of Happiness

Wayne Koestenbaum | Herself and Strangers

William H. Gass | Lifetimes out of Moments

John Ashbery | Being in Her

Margo Jefferson | Omniscient Omnivore

Susan Sontag | Performance Art

Fiction

Richard Powers | Improvisations

Tahar Ben Jelloun | Light Reading

Rikki Ducornet | Tangible Dreams

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis | ¡......!

Fernando Pessoa | Peristyle

Gertrude Stein | The Only One

Italo Calvino | Tamara

Barry Yourgrau | Beyond the Pale

Bruno Schulz | The Book

David Grossman | Bruno

Gary Farlow | The Prison

Rainer Maria Rilke | The Wrecked Houses; The Big Thing

Poetry

Samuel Beckett | Close of a Long Day

Wallace Stevens | The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm

Jaime Saenz | The Basket of Wool

Antonia Pozzi | Two Poems

Lyn Hejinian | Preliminaries consist of such eternity

Heather McHugh | What He Thought

Paul Kane | Two Poems

Dana Levin | Two Poems

Les Murray | Fredy's War

Saadi Youssef | Three Poems

Gordon Grilz | The Nature of Things

Cynthia MacDonald | A Past-Due Notice

Memoir

Grace Paley | Six Days

Joseph Brodsky | The Widow

Nadezhda Mandelstam | A Piece of Chocolate

Margaret Morganroth Gullette | This Long Silence

Atul Gawande | The Education of a Knife

Rick Moody | Intoxication of Conscience

Esther Allen | Confessions of a Silent Genre

Conversations

Bruno Schulz: Life and Deaths
Alan Adelson and Henryk Grynberg

Dark Realities: What Can't Be Said in Children's Books
PEN Children's Book Authors Committee

Essays

Michael Wood | The Work of Solitude

Susan Sontag | Fragments

Richard Zenith | Pessoa's Disquiet

Wislawa Szymborska | Some Recommended Reading

Larry Siems | July 5, 2003

Lawrence Venuti | Antonia Pozzi: Revisions

Jerzy Ficowski | Black Thursday

Lagniappe

Thomas Bernhard throws his voice.