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Unreliable Narrators:

In Politics; In Literature

Tribute

John Steinbeck: Fights and Flights

Arthur Miller | A Suffering Conscience

John Steinbeck | On the Road Again

William Kennedy | A Mighty Heart

Dorothy Allison | Real People

Studs Terkel | The More Things Change

Peter Matthiessen | Story Lines

John Steinbeck | Home Grown

Michele Serros | Small-Town Tales

George Plimpton | Lonesome Animals

John Steinbeck | End of the Road

Fiction

Jeanette Winterson | Heartless

Franz Kafka | The Truth About Sancho Panza

Jorge Luis Borges | Cervantes and the Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes | The Whole Truth

Julio Cortázar | Continuity of Parks

W. G. Sebald | Strange to Say . . .

Lewis Carroll | Who's Dreaming Whom?

Peter Carey | The Last Days of a Famous Mime

Grace Paley | A Conversation with My Father

Alice Munro | What She Wanted

William Maxwell | A Time to Mourn

William Maxwell | The Memory of All That

Passion Flowers | Penelope Fitzgerald

Robert Olen Butler | A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Ismail Kadare | Against Interpretation

Tim O'Brien | True War Stories

Poetry

Lynn Emanuel | inside gertrude stein

Robert Desnos | I Have Dreamed of You So Much

Agha Shahid Ali | Farewell

Rashid Hussein | Lessons in Parsing

Carolyn Forché | The Colonel

Memoir

Michael Ondaatje | The Passions of Lalla

Paula Fox | Foreign Relations

Sheila Munro | 'Want to Love You'

Graham Greene | Dear Frere

Conversations

Grace Paley | 'Open Destiny of Life'

William Maxwell | Imagined Landscape

Lorrie Moore | The Story of the Story

Tim O'Brien | 'This Is True'

Essays

Jorge Luis Borges | Partial Magic in the Quixote

James Wood | Sebald's Uncertainty

Philip K. Dick | Building a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later

Simon Schama | Breezy Stream of Time

Alice Munro | What Is Real?

Lorrie Moore | Better and Sicker

Randall Jarrell | At the Washington Zoo

Janet Malcolm | The Deaths of Anton Chekhov

Mario Vargas Llosa | The Truth of Lies

Richard Holmes | The Shortcomings of History

Novalis | Last Fragments

Milan Kundera | Shadowlands

Plato | The Allegory of the Cave

Lagniappe

Charles Simic sees the worlds.